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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having a special talent isn’t a hook.  It’s legacy, large donor, athletic recruit, urm, first Gen, and pell eligible
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Winning a contest could be considered a hook depending on which contest and the school. Even academic contests count more to some schools than others.

Having a parent who is a celebrity or a top executive at a company of interest to a school could also count. Celebrities are like free advertising and are potential large donors (as opposed to a current large donor.) Senior execs at certain companies are also potential large donors, and also potential employers of students. [/quote]

Being the child of a celebrity or certain executives is definitely a big time hook. They all seem to go to Brown, Vanderbilt, Harvard, Stanford, Penn, and Duke. Notice how no one seems go to MIT or CalTech. Or New Jersey City University.

Generally, it's recruited athlete, child of faculty, legacy but less so with each passing year, big time donor kid, poor enough for a Pell Grant but smart enough to have the grades and scores, URM - specifically, black or hispanic, which is widely manipulated by everyone. It's the Puerto Rican grandmother. Or the daughter of the president of Nigeria. No one from Anacostia High School is taking your kid's spot at Harvard.

The other awards mentioned are just the basic things every applicant for competitive colleges has these days. Maybe not the Rubik's Cube world record. That's not going to fly anyway. But something that exemplifies talent and passion and discipline. Wouldn't really call that a hook. More like a requirement these days. [/quote]

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