Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the key is being a unique combination of things and doing all of them well. I have seen this work.

Football quarterback and fashion designer who is featured in the local newspaper and sells clothing.
Basketball captain and regional orchestra flutist.
You get the idea.

Yep, the state championship winning point guard who is competitive Irish dancer and gold medal in archery

And wants to major in pediatric bio-culinary astro-political international game theory

No, because that doesn't tie together. I think you are just making fun of it. Some kids do have unusual interests. They stand out because they are tied together. And make sense.

I've actually seen the competitive equestrian who is also a medalist in archery get into multiple T5 using that background as the base for studying women's mobility on horseback and understanding women's history through the female body, through horses and arrows.
Studying Gender Studies and early British history with a sub-focus on warfare and geography.
Founder of the archery club in HS.
Nationally ranked equestrian.
History research project on how Eleanor of Aquitaine leveraged mobility into actual political power.

Anonymous wrote:You don't have to be unique. What you have to be is the best (or top few) of people who resemble you.

Play violin, get stacked against all the other violinists
Play bassoon, het stacked against the few other bassoonists.

Same for all other ECs and academics.