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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, can someone please enlighten me?[/quote]

"Having a "hook," meaning something that offers strong positionality for an applicant, dramatically improves the odds of college admission. Typically 40 percent of the students attending top-tier universities such as Harvard, Princeton, and Yale have a hook. The major hooks are:

•	[b]Legacy,[/b] meaning a family history of college attendance at a specific school (usually mother or father, but sometimes a grandparent -- and graduate school attendance does not always count)
•	Recruited athlete 
•	[b]Underrepresented student (African American,[/b] Latino/a, Native American, Alaskan Native, Pacific Islander, bi-racial, or multiracial)
•	Development (donation) case 
•	[b]VIP or high-profile applicant"[/b]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-michele-hernandez/10-secrets-for-top-colleg_b_1921183.html[/quote]

the Obama girls are going to kill this college app game.[/quote]Just like any other famous politician who has/had kids who attended college or got a break in fields that regular folks can't crack without connections.  Give it a break about the Obama girls.  There's a whole lot of folks out there with connections.[/quote]

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