<p>I don’t know about that one, but you should call wherever it is and ask, seeing as a lot of colleges do offer summer courses. So the answer might be yes.
Online college courses - nope. Try the website of wherever it is. Sorry to not be more help!</p>
<p>So I was combing through the Brown Admissions website again…(I don’t think it’s healthy…) and they seem to semi-encourage art supplements. I paint and stuff and am probably gonna be applying to the RISD-Brown dual degree thingie just to try my luck. Does painting count as a “hook”?</p>
<p>Everyone that applies to RISD is artistic, so I wouldn’t count painting as a hook… But if your work is nationally recognized or awarded then it’ll be a different story…</p>
<p>no i meant the paintings for brown…would the painting thing be a hook for Brown? Because you apply to both places separately before applying for the program.</p>
<p>Unless it’s nationally recognized or you won some prestigious award for it, it wouldn’t be a hook…</p>
<p>the hook thing is still kind of vague in definition for me…there’s like a ton of people out there with a bunch of different national awards…would you consider them to be multi-hooked or something?</p>
<p>A hook is loosely defined as something/trait that gives you a distinctive advantage over others in the application process. If someone was URM (under represented minority), was in USAMO and was a finalist for Intel ISEF, then yes, he/she would be considered to have more than one hook. </p>
<p>Being able to paint really isn’t a hook when hundreds, if not thousands, of applicants probably can and also submitted art supplements. Having your work nationally recognized or awarded is, as it sufficiently (and arguably arbitrarily) indicates that your work is above others.</p>
<p>no I get that just being able to wield an paintbrush isn’t gonna get me anywhere unless I get approval for my work through some fairly prestigious awards xD</p>
<p>I just wasn’t sure what exactly would be considered a hook. Thanks for clearing up the definition!</p>
<p>Area: Montreal</p>
<p>GPA: High school - 95 (highest average in grade), CEGEP - Hardest program with hardest courses in province - 85</p>
<p>SAT I: 2210 - CR: 730, M: 800, W: 680 (eep!)</p>
<p>SAT II: Chemistry: 800, Biology E: 780, French: 680</p>
<p>Refs: I never saw them but other teachers at my school have read them over and have approached me to tell me that so-and-so’s reference letter was the best I’ve ever seen - all the teachers basically said I’m a genius and one of the best students they have ever taught, if not THE best (in their subject…). My mentor (a doctor I shadow weekly) wrote the most glowing thing ever about how well i relate with people and work in a team, and what a great person I am and how much everyone loves me at the hospital and what a good doctor I’d make and how I learn fast and possess a “native intelligence in the sciences” (that one I’ve seen). So yeah, don’t mean to brag, but they’re awesome!</p>
<p>ECs: I work for the city ambulance as a certified EMR/EMT and wrote the school play (2hr production). Those are the major, most recent ones. I also started the newspaper at my old high school and it still exists despite me not being there anymore. 6 years professional acting experience… and this is just the tip of the iceberg</p>
<p>Sports: Was once upon a time a competitive waterskiier… haven’t competed in 4 years though.</p>
<p>Awards: Governor General’s Academic Medal, McGill University Science Award… one for community service, another for getting along with my peers and having a positive attitude in high school… and a LOT of subject awards. None yet for CEGEP though.</p>
<p>Other: published in poetry magazines, play I wrote was featured in a national publication and a feature about it will air on CBC news.</p>
<p>Ok, i hope that didn’t sound too braggy, because I’m usually not like that…</p>
<p>Colleges: Harvard, Brown, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, WUSTL, Oberlin, Northwestern, McGill, Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>Chance me?</p>
<p>I wonder if any of the above qualifies as a “hook”…</p>
<p>^Your stats are… appalling!! 
Full of hooks, too.</p>
<p>Any summer plans?</p>
<p>^I completely agree, you’re stats are pretty crazy
xD</p>
<p>Yeah but some of my CEGEP marks are not so great (I’m still in THE hardest program - average entering high school average: 92, number of governor general medals: around 15/30 - I graduated from high school #1 in my class, but my CEGEP gym marks are low to mid 70’s and physics are high 70’s (I hate/suck at physics). In high school I had only mid to high 90’s and 100’s.</p>
<p>Summer plans? I’m going backpacking through Europe with two of my best friends
Then I’m going to work for the city ambulance as an EMT.</p>
<p>I hope the fact that I’m super-involved in my school and community will compensate. Some things I have not mentioned is that I am on the Student Life Committee which is a group of select few students, teachers, the dean, the student life coordinator, and tech people, who basically are the policy making people at the school.</p>
<p><em>fingers crossed</em></p>
<p>Oh and I got 760 on SAT French not 670.</p>
<p>Magnet public school (rated #1 in canada by mccleans magazine)
GPA: Top%1 academic ranking (96.4% average out of 100%)</p>
<p>Major Courses:
english IB HL
history IB HL
French IB
Physics IB HL
Math IB
Chem IB
Biology IB HL
**full ib candidate</p>
<p>SAT:
cr 730
math 780
writing 800
total 2310</p>
<p>800 on sat math level 2
790 on chem sat</p>
<p>Major ecs:
Skin cancer researcher at local university
national gold medal for medical research at canada wide science fair
intel science fair participant in may 2010
numerous local science and technology fair awards
Vice president of community league with 500 members
Varsity basketball team
local hospital volunteering
mentoring/coaching junior students competing in science competition
Top 10 ranking in city-wide math contest
school clubs</p>
<p>Letters:
read counsellor’s letter. very good. top 1% for every category.</p>
<p>schools (all rd):
yale
cornell
penn
columbia
hopkins
brown
dartmouth
caltech
stanford
berkeley
ucla</p>
<p>please chance me…so nervous!!!
does anyone know if we compete amongst ourselves (canadians) or do they put us in the same pool as americans…</p>
<p>You have a good as chance as anyone else (if not better for some of your schools).</p>
<p>Quite honestly I find chance threads stupid. In the end, you’re either in or you’re not. Saying a school is a reach or a match doesn’t really say anything but to inflate egos or to give a glimmer of hope to something that might not exist.</p>
<p>@Kellogg</p>
<p>Impressive stats! Your EC is one of a few extraordinaries including darksoulz’s. However, it is more than even the best ECs and numbers, I have observed. Ethnic background, demographic status, essays, rec letters, and luck seem to take up bigger part than I used to think.</p>
<p>Btw, you are aware that Johns Hopkins requires 3 SAT subjects, right…??</p>
<p>For your last question: I recently applied to MIT’s summer math/sci program (20:1 competition rate), Cal tech’s summer and other similar few. They mostly say that Canadian applicants will be, first, evaluated by someone knowledgeable of Canada. Later, they will put all the high potentials together and pick. Well, they are programs for juniors, but still should be similar to their college admission process, I suppose.</p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>
<p>haha thanks. i called some admissions ppl and it turns out that canadians r compared with canadians. after all, that would make sense since there is always exactly a specific percentage of freshman who come from canada. its all been calculated behind the scenes… I guess we’re competing with each other than lolz</p>
<p>T^T
oh my, could you guys leave brown for me then xDD</p>
<p>jk, but there are some REALLY strong candidates in this thread, and there are also bunches that don’t comment/know CC…><</p>
<p>Do they just pit Canadians against Canadians or Internationals in general?</p>
<p>for major regions such as canada, china, korea, etc, the schools pit those students only against students from their own country. for smaller nations who send less than 5 students to the school each year, they get pitted with other internationals…so yeah, we’re competing amongst ourselves…</p>