<p>I'm going to try to appeal to them as a person coming from a rough background and childhood and speak my ambitions about my future as well as my plans in achieving goals. yadayadayadahh</p>
<p>how bout you?</p>
<p>I don't think that is a hook in the CC sense. I always thought it was something more like your dad has donated the new library wing to the school or you are a star-athlete or something like that.</p>
<p>^my bad, just interpret it as the 'hook' that will hook the admission officers and make you standout </p>
<p>by the way, I happened to have written several essays before really deciding in what I wanted to write about. Did most of you also do a lot of 'practice' essays before starting on the final draft?</p>
<p>Haha, well my hook is that I moved from Australia when I was 11 and so I've overcome difficulties to fit into American society. And yeah, I did write a lot of practice essays before deciding :)</p>
<p>lol we all look at your hook as the epitome of a great hook, hookandline.
my hook is very similar- about moving and challenges that came with it.</p>
<p>I'm a Caucasian male from the upper middle class living in the suburbs.</p>
<p>imitosis- I havent heard that one in a while.
;)</p>
<p>lol...same, imitosis (except I'm female). I'm hoping my passion for my volunteer work will serve as some sort of hook for me.</p>
<p>my "hook" is also trying to show me as someone who survived a rough background.</p>
<p>Same as imitosis, though I'm hoping my semester-long independent writing project may help me stand out. (Getting a B on that probably won't help my case there...)</p>
<p>i moved to Dom Rep in 6th grade and came back in 8th...</p>
<p>i wrote about my struggles fitting in over there and the new things i learned and how ive applied it to America...</p>
<p>plus im so poor its not even funny at this point!</p>
<p>I'm Hispanic, I'm ambitious, I'm an immigrant.</p>
<p>I moved into a small, white town with barely any hispanics (and the hispanics were all 'gangsta, don't-care-about-school' type).</p>
<p>i'm the only white girl on an all-black basketball team.</p>
<p>^ I was the only asian on the football team. Then I quit hahaha</p>
<p>First in my family to go to college ever, hispanic dad white mom, from a teen mother :), I really hope that I can get in because of my grades/scores/essays/recs versus a 'hook'...</p>
<p>Similar to others, i'm using my immigration/low-income/moving around yadiya. Except it really seems like a lot of people talk about that so I'm trying to focus more on other things.</p>
<p>I come from an upper class white suburb, and at my job, I had to train a mexican who only spoke spanish, so I had to use my spanish language knowledge to communicate with him, and through that I became less bigoted and came to realize that illegal immigrants are the new America because they value hard work and opportunity. And we are still friends, and I am almost fluent in spanish because of him.</p>
<p>I guess it is the other half of your guy's stories.</p>
<p>My hook is that I am a chair.</p>
<p>1/4 Mexican and can not speak Spanish past hello and how many years do you have.</p>
<p>immigrant, first-generation, adopted, low income (below 15,000 for family of four)</p>