What do you do with your spare time? It does not have to be related to your major. For example one of my sons was a news junkie and wrote about that, about how he read the BBC, NY Times, Al Jazeera, and other outlets every day, and WHY he was so fascinated (ok, he did tie it back to his possible major – finance – as he liked seeing how world events affected markets).
Emory throws out 9th grade grades and recalculates your gpa, fyi.