From what I understand, hooks are specifically categories that you cannot control such as URM, legacy, first generation, athlete etc. I would think they would look carefully at a student from a country without recent representation, however. But honestly, there is nothing anyone can do other than to keep working on other applications (I say this only because of the statistics and say the same to my daughter.) The waiting is so difficult and none of you deserves the added stress of this in the middle of a pandemic; my heart really goes out to all of you.