<p>Students: please please try to listen to what Sherpa posted. Colleges’ hooks are something that they desperately seek for institutional purposes. Just because you’ve been fortunate enough to have an interesting background doesn’t make you institutionally needed. Military families aren’t rare enough to nudge aside someone else. Same w/multi cultural upbringings.</p>
<p>Feel free to disagree all you want. In 21 years of recruiting and interviewing for my HYP alma mater, I’ve seen a ton of top HS seniors – the vast, vast majority of them being rejected. </p>
<p>You may be the tippy top student at your HS this year but in context, you’re among tens of thousands of other stong kids in the top schools’ applicant pools. Your role is to present yourself in the best light – but don’t overestimate how awesome you are in top school admissions. Best of luck.</p>
<p>I understand that, and that’s actually what I was trying to point out in my post – that such a background was interesting, but it wouldn’t do much at the very top schools in terms of suddenly making a prospective candidate a lot more appealing (which would be what an actual “hook” would do).</p>
<p>Yes I am aware that countless applicants have also had the opportunity. But I feel it’s all the same important to mention it in my apps, because I would not be the same person without these experiences @fledgling: thanks for your advices I just sent you a reply message ;)</p>
<p>yeah it’s not some great accomplishment or anything and it hasn’t always been easy, but after years of feeling bad about it I figure I might as well use it to my advantage</p>
