patillaxp

Similar to others, i'm using my immigration/low-income/moving around yadiya. Except it really seems like a lot of people talk about that so I'm trying to focus more on other things.

Tboonepickens

I come from an upper class white suburb, and at my job, I had to train a mexican who only spoke spanish, so I had to use my spanish language knowledge to communicate with him, and through that I became less bigoted and came to realize that illegal immigrants are the new America because they value hard work and opportunity. And we are still friends, and I am almost fluent in spanish because of him.

I guess it is the other half of your guy's stories.

country day

My hook is that I am a chair.

chronicfuture12

1/4 Mexican and can not speak Spanish past hello and how many years do you have.

crunchygranola

immigrant, first-generation, adopted, low income (below 15,000 for family of four)

LaVieEnChocolat

i'm from europe ,low income, first generation, came 10 years ago ...

mcgoogly

Yo, yall need to find some better hooks.

"I overcome hardships"
"I overcome adversity"
""I overcome moving at some point in my life to some location (BONUS: I realized things about different cultures.)"
"I like to volunteer"
"I realized stuff about racism"
Snoooozeee

Except for the chair one. Like if you were actually a chair, that would get me psyched if I was reading your application.

josh5sox

I'm going with the diversity thing. My dad is in the Navy and I moved to Italy in the 9th grade and have been to four high schools in as many years. Hope it works haha

hellomacy

I don't think there is any better hook than being a stellar athlete.
Dumb kids from my school with nothing more than 85% average get to say "NO THANKS" to Harvard and Brown admission officers during JUNIOR YEAR - yes, that early!
Every time I see those kids, I thought it was incredibly unfair and almost shocking. I mean, look at some of us who stay up late and study like hell and die writing up essays and posting questions on CC and barely get into the "college of our dreams" or whatever,
then I see my athlete friend who doesn't even have to write a legitimate application because he already committed to Duke over the summer and he doesn't even have to take the SATs twice.

josh5sox

yeah seriously, if you are an athlete you can commit and decommit anywhere you want, as long as you are good enough to have multiple offers lol.

hellomacy

yaeh, then again....
I try to imagine what their life would be AFTER college. Not all of the athletes are dumb, but if you get into Harvard with 1940 SAT, how would they do during classes? Would they even get a legitimate job after graduation?

josh5sox

That is true, there isn't much room for advancement when you manage a 2.0 at Harvard. They actually have a tv show about this guy who played football for Yale and he is now in real estate doing "flips". Not exactlly what I would imagine the average Yale grad does with their degree.

country day

Stop talking crap about athletes. Athletes work harder than you do academically. Check out the "This is so not fair" thread or what ever it is called.

mr. president

convinced school board and changed school polocy

josh5sox

Doubtful. The number three rated DE in the country goes to my school. He quit football after 8th grade and kept playing basketball. He took up football again in his junior year because, after all, he is 6'4 - 230 lbs. After a 15 sack season in just his first year of high school football he is now a senior and at the start of the season, before he had made a tackle, he had atleast 90 offers in hand.