<p>Being an athlete is difficult. I balance hours of homework (all Honors or AP), hours of practice, and then I am also President of multiple clubs (and I am not that different then many people out there). I am not saying being an athlete is harder or easier than being a student, but it does take time and talent to be good enough to be recruited (not EVERY athlete is even on a college level at the end of high school). And yes, for many sports and some schools, it does make it significantly easier to get into a school if you are an athlete, there are many schools where you have to be able to be a somewhat viable candidate on your own (I know this from expirience).</p>
<p>I have lived in 4 different states...done research in a university's lab...also held a paid internship at a biomedical research lab in silicon valley...volunteered in a poor village in india helping at a medical clinic. I'm pretty sure these won't be too big of a deal though since most kids have done at least 3 out of the 4 i listed. Meh, I don't know.</p>
<p>I'm Asian...YES that's a hook! :)</p>
<p>^That's what I'm talkin about</p>
<p>I think it's ridiculous to think that athletes have to try a lot harder than nerds do. Seriously, I wouldn't mind dedicating half of my free time getting buff just to prepare to play a sport that I love in college and at the same time, go to the college that I really like. Yea some athletes are stupid, but hey it's Yale, the classes are GOOD and the learning atmosphere is incomparable.</p>
<p>Ok, I was in the presence of a god-man last year. He was the all state left tackle of our football team, class rank 13/1156, 35 ACT, and he was the first chair trumpet in the highest jazz band at our school (and we won the blank-ing grammy gold award two years ago that means we were the best music department in the country). Hes at Yale now, and he is a living breathing hooking machine.</p>
<p>Colleges are so bored with curing cancer I designed a non-curable form that works according to post-graduate level mathematics models and incorporates a treatise on how advanced marine biological underwater basket weaving relates to metaphysics. </p>
<p>That was, of course, in my spare time between taking/teaching 30 post-graduate classes a semester and self-studying all of the APs. I've also won the Nobel prize 3 times and am a full, tenured professor at HYMP&S. Thus, even already holding numerous masters and doctorate level degrees, I clearly do not have passion or discipline and have a ~40% at best of undergraduate acceptance. Even worse, I only managed to score a 225 on an IQ test... I really need to get it up to at least the 230 range to have a shot.</p>
<p>I am the long lost love child of bill clinton and gennifer flowers. When i was a baby, the FBI sent me into hiding in Cuba and gave me a new name, elian gonzalez, and birthday. I soon found out that the foster mother that they put me with was actually an area 51 creation that the CIA called the "Mayan Callendar." She was programmed to destroy the United States in 2012 but while we were on a boat sailing to florida, the loch ness monster came up from the carribean and swallowed her whole. I survived however because god came down from the heavens and physically gave me his blessings. Even though i survived, i was sent back to cuba, which is probably worse than surviving. When Fidel Castro visited me upon my return, I gave him a glass of water with a straw and the remains of my peanut butter and jelly sandwich touched the rim. He's deathly allergic to peanuts and died shortly afterwords but the government's done a good job to cover that up by saying he's a columnist for a local newspaper. Since I was in police examination for a big portion of my freshman year in high school, my grades suffered and I was only able to pull of a 3.98 GPA, so I'm really worried if i have a shot at any ivies because of this...</p>
<p>^, nope, sorry, My step brother brother (2400, 36, 5s on 84 APs before sr. year), who happens to own princeton applied to princeton with only a 99.98 average, and he got waitlisted, and then rejected. </p>
<p>...if only he hadn't misspelled "necessary" on his sophomore Lord of the Flies paper (those S's and C's kill ya).</p>
<p>but atleast he got accepted to his safety school, The Central West Nebraska School of Architecture and Mining.</p>
<p>my cousin somehow got a 2500 on the SAT, 39 on the ACT, and 7's on all APs. He is native-american and was born in the sea and can communicate with oceanic wildlife. during his spare time, he helped to rid of malaria in south eaast asia as well as treat HIV/AIDS patients. he is also the ceo of various corporations worth billions and even helped to track down saddam hussein just for fun. he has done all of this without any arms, legs, eyes, ears, or a tongue. even though he has been stabbed 24 times and shot 5 times in the head and survived, he got rejected by Harvard because he didn't know the russian alphabet.</p>