Tell Us Your "hook"

Applying to College
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<p>Seems to me, when folks on CC speak about admissions to elite LAC's, typically the word "hook" comes up. Seems to me, FWIW, to be the deciding factor when looking at various students who are very homogeneous on the SAT results. We all know that the essay is critical as well, but I thought it would be fun to hear about others "hooks" as they apply. We talk of them, but never about them. C'mon folks, tell us your hooks. I'll start:</p>

<p>D applied to Amherst ED:</p>

<p>Danced ballet for ten years with state ballet (20-25 hrs. per week). Should be worth something, I hope!</p>

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<p>Your hook is VERY impressive! 10 years is something!</p>

<p>I guess by hooks are my 2 businesses, my non-profit organization, and my 1500 CS hours.</p>

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<p>Did research on malaria in Brazil for seven months.</p>

<p>JK.
Hopefully my long record in debate + spending a little over a month working with my choice's team. And being a legacy</p>

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<p>I Guess I Should Have Asked For The School(s) To Which You Applying As Well!</p>

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<p>I am beautiful.</p>

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<p>Dartmouth was the one I was refering to.</p>

<p>Also applying:</p>

<p>Stanford (also a legacy)
G-town
Amherst
Northwestern
UofChicago
Reed</p>

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<p>I am applying to Princeton, Wharton, UCB, MIT, Harvard, Columbia, and some safeties.</p>

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<p>founded 1st local chapter of i abolish in USA (since it works on a national scale). we kind of didnt realize this until the president of the organization informed us.</p>

<p>stop modern day slavery! more than 27,000,000 people enslaved worldwide</p>

<p><a href="http://www.iabolish.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.iabolish.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I'm about to start working on my 16th production in theatre.
(Harvard SCEA)</p>

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<p>WOW, some really impressive ones! Keep em' coming! Pattcake, beauty is in the eye of the beholder!</p>

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<p>Whatever78, IMPRESSIVE to say the least. Good luck!</p>

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<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=38402&highlight=hook%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=38402&highlight=hook&lt;/a>
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=100205&highlight=hook%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=100205&highlight=hook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>De Ja Vu, indeed.</p>

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<p>-I'm a farm girl
-I compose my own stuff (music) and have performed one in public (that's not too much, but it's something)
and
-I play ocarina! </p>

<p>Haha, I really just play clarinet and piano, but I can so play a mean Hava Nagila on ocarina.</p>

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<p>I can spin a pencil back and forth around my thumb.</p>

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<p>I don't have a hook. Woe is me :(</p>

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<p>9,700 posts is a hook :)</p>

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<p>-I fly planes.
-I'm captain of academic decathlon.
-I interned at MIT</p>

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<p>I also own a political forum with over 50k members, 300k posts and 12k threads in 6 months. Its the fastest growing (and maybe the largest so far) political forum on the net, with a Google Ranking of PR8 (the highest possible rank).</p>

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<p>thanks very much BJM8, same to u and ur daughter</p>

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<p>i hv been playing the tabla, and indian percussion instrument, for 10 yrs now, and applied ED to UVA. I sent them a music cd that i compossed</p>