<p>Although I am not very unique, no real 'hook,' I do have some potentially unique attributes. Would being an exchange student to Spain be considered something out of the norm? I am curious to see other people's unique non-academic attributes. Please list some of your unique characteristics on this thread. </p>
<p>Oh, and I have won some snowboarding competitions-is that also considered unique?</p>
<p>I got a US Senator to say I should get in...</p>
<p>Dirt poor white guy in a real urban public school, but kicking ass</p>
<p>National finalist in NFLs last year</p>
<p>State champ in debate</p>
<p>You're gonna see some rediculously emasculating things here... but in the end all of us and none of us are special</p>
<p><em>googly eyed</em>
Ooooh! Congrats! What catergory?? (I'm a speechie too, but not at that level- speech team is very small, and not very respected at my school, so we never go to qualifiers)</p>
<p>I'm sure being an exchange student would be out of the norm.</p>
<p>extemp, but I'm more proud of getting the team to whoop all the other privates in the area in terms of national competition.</p>
<p>I love beating "the man"</p>
<p>Speaking of "privates" I have a "third leg"</p>
<p>and thats pretty unique for this board I'm guessing</p>
<p>Am I right?</p>
<p>I've done an exchange to Japan, but are they really that unique? I didn't really think they were...Not that it matters; I'll get Pton's opinion on it in a few days anyway.</p>
<p>i ran a marathon, but no one thinks its unique on this website. im a black belt, and a state champ in forensics (speech) but overall, im exactly the same as everyone here. not better not worse. (well maybe worse)</p>
<p>i am an international student studying and living alone in the U.S ( in a prep school on finaid), i grew up and went to school in china before high school, then moved to a north african country where the nile flows, and finally i end up here, is that somewhat unique? probably not, dammit. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I've lived in NJ for seventeen years, so I'm impressed, if that counts for anything.</p>
<p>hey!- did you do IX or USX? i was a policy-er, but I qualled in extemp as well... stupid not double qualifying.</p>
<p>I watched both extemp rounds, though- what did you speak on / what was your intro (that being the most memorable part...)</p>
<p>and congrats. good luck as well.</p>
<p>Just be your true self, disregard any social "norms"--you will find that you have lots of uniqueness. People who aren't unique are just conventionalized by "the crowd".</p>
<p>Unique factors... h'm. A reccomendation from a senior Professor at P'Ton? Something I'm hoping might just turn the scale when they re-evaluate my application in the RD Round.</p>
<p>Recommendation from Cheif donator to Center of Jewish Life on Princeton Campus and From founder of Center of Christian/Jewish Relations in U.S. Hopefully this does something, though i doubt it</p>
<p>haha shark bite...thats pretty creepy....ive ran a marathon and also won a state debate competition...</p>
<p>Gautam, who do you plan to that uber-powerful rec from?! <em>jaw-drops</em> dude i think il just phone up nash, or former econ prof bernanke and ask 'em for recs :p</p>
<p>I was homeschooled and I've volunteered abroad (orphanages, nature reserves, Habitat for Humanities...) literally all over the world.</p>
<p>did you have to pay in any way for these trips?</p>
<p>Me: Norwegian citizen of indian ethnicity, born in Norway, studied in International schools, graduated from South Korea. Early graduation. Not many of such combos around, right :D, invented and patenting a device that tracks miles of highway road between exits for people who overspeed, quadrilingual, unique inasmuch that I dared to apply to P with crappy SATs :p</p>