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[quote=Anonymous]Hooks are those aspects to a student application that help schools meet their own institutional needs. This includes legacy, donor /development, Cultural and geographic diversity, first gen etc. They are the things that strengthen applications sometimes although the are not achievements or accomplishments per se. Parents love to throw around the terms “hook” and “spike” like we’re insiders on the admissions process and obviously we aren’t. But in that context a spike refers to something the student has accomplished that stands out as particularly strong, e.g. winning a national science competition[/quote]
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