<p>How many hooked applicants are there? There are only so many olympiad winners and international level blank-ists (I’m not consideirng recruited athletes as a hook, as I consider that a different category). So overall… how many hooked applicants are there?</p>
<p>About 723.</p>
<p>Interesting. Where’d you hear this from? </p>
<p>By the way, what exactly is a “hook”? I’m not really sure, although from several posts I gather it to be prestigious awards, legacies (sons/daughters of famous people), and programs.</p>
<p>Oh and I don’t count legacies either… they are starting to count for less and less and make up too many people.</p>
<p>Ahhh hooks, haha
so basically anything that is UNIQUE or HARD TO GET</p>
<p>For example, You lost your arms, have heart attacks every 5 hours and still managed to get a 4.0 with 22 AP’s all 5’s by the way and you have to walke 2 hours to school everyday.</p>
<p>or…
Intel, westinghouse WINNER, i don’t think finalist is that big of a deal, however i may be proved wring.</p>
<p>Internships, however these are becoming more and more popular and easier to get.</p>
<p>URM</p>
<p>Some serious illness</p>
<p>and of course the disputed legacy and my dads Bill gates and if you accept me you get a 15 million dollar addition to your library kids</p>
<p>Oh yeah not limited to these, I trying not to think too hard after finals lol =]</p>
<p>The hooked have to include recruited athletes, it’s by far the largest hooked group unless you lump all URMs together.</p>
<p>At ivies, the hooked: recruited athletes, legacies, URMs, staff kids, development kids are at least half of every class.</p>
<p>I meant specifically the stars… sorry for not making it clearer… ultimately not counting legacies, recruited athletes, and urms. The group I’m referring to are international stars in one field or another. How big is this group?</p>
<p>Since colleges don’t publish data for that group, it would be hard to get an exact number. Books and counselors maintain that most of the unhooked (by traditional definition) at the very top schools would fit the star description.</p>
<p>I wasn’t looking for a specific number… but in the hundreds? lower thousands? upper thousands? ten thousands, even?</p>
<p>How is an internship a hook? I think internships are completely normal and should be done. I mean, honestly, if your exceptional enough to beat out law school graduates and college students for a high level internship while only in high school, you probally will succeed anyway.</p>
<p>“if your exceptional enough to beat out law school graduates and college students for a high level internship while only in high school, you probally will succeed anyway.”</p>
<p>you answered your own question, that’s definently a hook if you can beat out college grads. Shows your true potential, what every college wants, in my opinion, apart from the superficial grades and test scores.</p>