<p>I just looked around a bit and I’m curious.</p>
<p>I have been doing Chinese yoyo/diabolo for pretty much my whole life and it’s well… become my life, more or less. As of sophomore year, I’ve organized performances and taught classes via an out of school organization. Does this constitute as a “hook”? I do these activities out of pure enjoyment, but I am just asking on behalf of writing my applications…</p>
<p>In addition, I have been offered a sponsorship by a culture organization and a working job at a CC, but it may not go into effect until after college application season is over. Does it become void if both occur past the admission deadlines?</p>
<p>Thanks for your time. Now back to yoyo-ing. :)</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s going to be a “hook” unless you can do something really impressive with it and send in a videotape or something to their admission office. But I would say it’s going to be a “very major EC”, given the amount of time you spend on it and the energy that you devote to it. Of course, if you break the world record, that’s a different story =). But you should definitely mention your yoyo passion in detail in your application! You might even be able to work it into a well-structured essay =p</p>
<p>If the things you are doing occur after college app season, you can still put it on your app (as long as you are really sure that it’s going to happen). Just note beside it the date in the future when it’s going to occur or “pending.”</p>
<p>I actually learned the Chinese yoyo for a couple of years in elementary/middle school, though I didn’t keep it up. It’s cool to see how you’re really expanding on it =p</p>
<p>ps. You know what you should do - you should go film a youtube video of something cool on the yoyo. If you get more than 100,000 hits, perhaps it would become a hook then ;)</p>
<p>I’m not a big fan of the term “hook” because everyone seems to have a different idea of what it means. What you have is a unique EC that you’ve demonstrated is very important to you. That can only help in admissions. I would definitely consider videotaping one of your performances and sending it in, using whatever guidelines your colleges use for fine arts submissions.</p>
<p>Oasis - I’m not sure if you’re serious about the youtube hits, but if you are, I guess I have 7,000 more hits to go. XD</p>
<p>Catfish - haha I agree with you. I was thinking of submitting it as fine arts, except it doesn’t really have a category (ie on the Stanford application).</p>
<p>Too bad there aren’t any competitions or anything… maybe I should start one?</p>
<p>Actually, I found an international competition… but its price tag is higher than I can afford (not to mention I haven’t travelled by myself before). How much might placing in this competition do for me? Is it worth the time, effort, and money to do?</p>
<p>If you participate in the competition, do so only for yourself. If you’re only doing it to impress a college, it isn’t worth it. You’ve already demonstrated your dedication by organizing performances and teaching.</p>
<p>And since it seems you already posted the video on youtube, you might make a note when on your fine arts application of the address and how many views you’ve gotten. It couldn’t hurt.</p>
<p>I’m curious now. Do you mind posting a link?</p>
<p>I plan to attend the competition mainly to meet diabolists from around the world and learn something new, but my parents are skeptical because of the time/effort/money required for such a trip. They want the trip to serve a “dual purpose” so that thought popped in mind. Anyway, besides my personal life…</p>
<p>Arklogic - PM me and show me what you got. :)</p>
<p>Thanks for the help guys - I appreciate it.</p>
<p>PhatAlbert: While caculating AI
URM, Athlete, legacy, and a spectacluar EC’s is considered as a hook.
It is 15% which is more or less divided as
<urm,athlete> - 15
<legacy> - 10
Your spectacular ECs provide you anywhere from 5 to 15 % depending upon what hook it is; e.g an Olympiad representation is 10 while qualifying for the camp constitute a 5. Summer at RSI is 15 for MIT/Caltech and other Engg. institutes. An Intel Finalists is 15, semi finalists is 10.
I can go on with different number for hooks</legacy></urm,athlete></p>
<p>But yes anything extraordinary in the ECs is a hook.</p>
<p>There are two distinct parts to AI calculation. 15% is for ECs and 15% for special hooks.</p>
<p>I guess I shouldn’t use “hook” since there’s a lot of disagreement (and it just sounds sort of bad anyway). Basically, I’m asking if Stanford sees any value if I did this activity to this extent.</p>
<p>1MX - I would answer but that would spill one of my secrets. But it goes along the lines of stirring up new interest, to keep it short. oh, and TV watching isn’t as strenuous as diaboloing.</p>
But it goes along the lines of stirring up new interest, to keep it short. oh, and TV watching isn’t as strenuous as diaboloing.</p>