<p>Hey people! I saw this on a harvard thread...instead of posting our chances and hooks, post what you think is your "anti-hook"...what could possibly get you rejected. </p>
<p>Me:</p>
<p>admissions officers will take lightly a project I did in India for my club (the Women's Help Organization). i taught taekwon-do to school of blind girls. and I wrote my essay on that. I'm afraid the ad officers will think I made it up or something or I just had my parents pay, but actually I paid for it because I'd been saving for the trip since like 10th grade when I started the club.</p>
<p>AND...who knows how teacher recs went? maybe mine were mindless and boring...</p>
<p>Anyways, whadda you guys think are your anti-hooks...</p>
<p>my anti-hook would be the lack of anything spectacular that i've done. my cs teacher said she wrote a glowing rec for me, but i don't know how well my stats teacher did - i hated his class, and only used the rec since stanford didn't want any recs from 10th grade, which was when i took calculus, which i thoroughly enjoyed.</p>
<p>my antihook might be that my essays are different/risky, and maybe they do not want them because they do not necessarily show my passion for physics, they are more just honest and what I wanted to write about at the time.</p>
<p>my anti-hooks are no research, decent essays, and a counselor rec that won't reveal anything because I moved and I've known my current counselor for 2 months.</p>
<p>i think the counselor bit would ring true for a bit of us, goldfish. even though i've been at my high school all 3 years, i've talked to her twice, and one time was to ask her to fill out a rec for me.</p>
<p>essays: crap, crap, crap, & crap
i think that's the major factor ^
But other than that: not nat'l awards or anything like that...just an avg kid</p>
<p>I got lucky with my counselor - she had been my favorite teacher for two years before she switched departments. Her rec was basically a third teacher rec for me.</p>
<p>Anyways - it's my lack of continuitiy in anything except piano (which I've only kept up because I was forced to). And I'm not so sure how good my chem teacher's rec was.</p>
<p>Oh, and Stanford usually only admits one or two guys from my school every year.</p>
<p>I was looking at some SAT stats for Stanford last night...</p>
<p>My anti-hook is definitely my scores. I've never broken 700 on any test. It looks like it's pointless to even apply, seeing some of these accept/reject lists... it really looks like no one even applies with my stats. </p>
<p>My anti-hook is probably that I scribbled on the picture that I turned in for my long essay and made it look like crap. Umm, yeah. Kind of regretting that now.</p>
<p>my antihook: the ad com officer will think my ec in economics is nothing amazing. even though we placed nationally i don't think my passion shone (or shined-- not sure which one) through in the essay and i didn't really mention what level we reached in it. ... and major grammatical mistakes in my long essay. I was rushing to get them in last minute... <strong>wince</strong>*, my teacher recs aren't amazing. i'm def not "the best student" of their careers.
+this one is the killer: i'm really scattered. i never pursued ONE area. and you know what they say: quality v. quantity. i'm the typical quantity student: the average dilettante. </p>
<p>i bascially know for a fact that i'm getting defered (i'm a pyschic and dreamed it). instead of going to college, i'm seriously considering fine-tuning my pyschic abilites and becoming some famous seer to rich people in hollywood... like a legitimate ms. cleo and earn billions that way</p>