<p>i'm from europe ,low income, first generation, came 10 years ago ...</p>
<p>Yo, yall need to find some better hooks.</p>
<p>"I overcome hardships"
"I overcome adversity"
""I overcome moving at some point in my life to some location (BONUS: I realized things about different cultures.)"
"I like to volunteer"
"I realized stuff about racism"
Snoooozeee</p>
<p>Except for the chair one. Like if you were actually a chair, that would get me psyched if I was reading your application.</p>
<p>I'm going with the diversity thing. My dad is in the Navy and I moved to Italy in the 9th grade and have been to four high schools in as many years. Hope it works haha</p>
<p>I don't think there is any better hook than being a stellar athlete.
Dumb kids from my school with nothing more than 85% average get to say "NO THANKS" to Harvard and Brown admission officers during JUNIOR YEAR - yes, that early!<br>
Every time I see those kids, I thought it was incredibly unfair and almost shocking. I mean, look at some of us who stay up late and study like hell and die writing up essays and posting questions on CC and barely get into the "college of our dreams" or whatever,
then I see my athlete friend who doesn't even have to write a legitimate application because he already committed to Duke over the summer and he doesn't even have to take the SATs twice.</p>
<p>yeah seriously, if you are an athlete you can commit and decommit anywhere you want, as long as you are good enough to have multiple offers lol.</p>
<p>yaeh, then again....
I try to imagine what their life would be AFTER college. Not all of the athletes are dumb, but if you get into Harvard with 1940 SAT, how would they do during classes? Would they even get a legitimate job after graduation?</p>
<p>That is true, there isn't much room for advancement when you manage a 2.0 at Harvard. They actually have a tv show about this guy who played football for Yale and he is now in real estate doing "flips". Not exactlly what I would imagine the average Yale grad does with their degree.</p>
<p>Stop talking crap about athletes. Athletes work harder than you do academically. Check out the "This is so not fair" thread or what ever it is called.</p>
<p>convinced school board and changed school polocy</p>
<p>Doubtful. The number three rated DE in the country goes to my school. He quit football after 8th grade and kept playing basketball. He took up football again in his junior year because, after all, he is 6'4 - 230 lbs. After a 15 sack season in just his first year of high school football he is now a senior and at the start of the season, before he had made a tackle, he had atleast 90 offers in hand.</p>
<p>Yeah and he worked hard to get it. Probably works out a lot. I can tell you josh that I work a lot harder on wresting than I do on my academics, and I got a 2100 on the SAT (not bragging, I know it is not as high as others).</p>
<p>That is impressive. He probably has a 1700/2400 at best and can still go to whatever school he wants.</p>
<p>athletes deserve every right to go anywhere they want. its much harder being an athlete than just reading books.</p>
<p>yes blacklantern, athletes do have the right to go anywhere they want to.
it is however an ignorant and highly fallible statement that they work harder than people who get into colleges with 2400 and As. there's no way to determine "who works harder" and it's a dumb question anyway</p>
<p>do you know the training schedule athletes go through compared to that of someone who just goes to school, does his HW, and reads? before i quit my ambitions of becoming a pro tennis player, everyday i went to the academy, ran miles and sprints, was on a strict diet, just hit for hours at end, did some more fitness, etc.... now that i don't do that anymore and i just play for high school i know that being an A student is a hell of a lot easier.</p>
<p>I feed cows.</p>
<p>I used that I was the first in my family to go to college. Then I just wrote a good essay on a book I liked.</p>
<p>How come athletes are recruited but not musicians? Every talented musician I know dedicates a tremendous amount of time to their craft, daily practice etc, easily as much time as an athlete.</p>
<p>hmm not sure how much of a hook all this is gonna be if all of u guys seemed to deal with similar issues</p>
<p>More athletes are recruited as opposed to musicians b/c it's easier to "rate" athletes, that is, by the number of touchdowns or how quickly they run a marathon. Music/Art/Drama has more of a qualitative rating, but some colleges still recruit these students.</p>