<p>Envision your folder on the table in the admissions meeting. Your area rep starts with “This is Pennguy, he has strong scores, some blips in the grades that he covers… any questions?”<br>
vs.
“This is Pennguy, he has strong scores, some blips in the grades, wants to study languages, not only did Latin but studies Greek!, how cool is that?? We have a letter here from Dr Z in the humanities dept saying that Pennguy has talked to him about his ancient language research field and ways to meld it into modern electonic communications.” (OK, I made that up for example)
Anything you do to make you unique will help at this point.</p>