<p>It seems that a “hook” is a method to sort admissions piles, but some see it as an exclusive ticket to admission (i.e. child of a Senator), so it also seems to be arbitrary. I’m not really interested in that conversation, so I probably shouldn’t have titled my post “Brown Hooks.” Instead I would like to discern how Brown would invite a student on the basis of diversity in relation to other features of the application from the essay (likely the best way of communicating diversity) to gpa and test scores.</p>