<p>I will be applying to college in a year or so and I am trying to figure out how I can up my chances to get accepted into Princeton. My grades are good, my course rigor is close to the best at my school, and I have good test scores. I am a leader in numerous clubs at my school as well. I even founded a chapter of the Science NHS.</p>
<p>I want to show a unique passion somehow when I apply, and demonstrate that I am good at it. For me, I feel that passion is cooking. I cook dinner every night for my family (high-quality food considering it’s made with basic grocery items). I have a lot of food knowledge, I am excellent for my age, and at one point in my life I wanted to be a chef. I haven’t entered contests or anything, but I want to somehow up my status as a passionate cook. I also enjoy food science and chemistry (In AP Chem right now).</p>
<p>I think something like this would be a good way to shoe myself as a unique applicant. </p>
<p>I don’t really know how to show my passion, and getting a job in a kitchen isn’t really the type of thing I am looking for.</p>
<p>What do you think I should do to make some more ground on “hooking” my application with my passion?</p>
<p>Cook meals at Ronald McDonald’s house or at a homeless shelter or for a fundraiser.</p>
<p>These still won’t be hooks since “hooks” are things like stellar football players that colleges feel that they must have in their student body. However, doing such things would make your application more interesting.</p>
<p>I think northstarmom’s response is rite but id say try and go further by cooking for multiple organizations and not just for fundraisers. My passion is community service and i currently vollunteer at an organization that cooks food every monday and wednsday and drive it to a number of shelters and to downtown and distributes the food. Its a relly moving experience and its really amazing to hear what some of these people have to say. You have to understand that you at that particular time may be the only place they can confide in and its truly a moving experience.
This is something i would reccomend doing I am a current high school senior and i will tell you now its not about the hook its about consistency and in a completely superficial sense outdoing your competitors. I started my volunteering in my freshman year an have done roughly 2500-3000 hours on top of balancing a social life 2 varsity sports and good grades.
From my experience if you can excel at one thing on your resume all while being well rounded you will have no trouble getting in. I know it sound kind of cheezy especially when your applying to Princeton but I think you will have a good chance you sound like a good person and a well rounded student.</p>
<p>well, i’m no expert on what the college admissions people are looking for, but personally, I think it’s great that you do this just for the love of it and for the benefit of your family. I think that you could showcase this either by talking about your cooking in your essay or by putting something in the “additional info” section, perhaps with a listing of the different dishes you’ve cooked or a sample of various weekly menus. I would definitely put this in your extra-curricular section; you must spend about an hour a day on this hobby, right? </p>
<p>Another option would be for you to start a cooking class or to become a private chef for other families.</p>
<p>Hey! I’m going to college for Food Science, and it’s a really interesting (and awesome!!) major. Check it out! Princeton doesn’t offer it but Ivy Cornell does, as well as most major rural universities. See what you can find, but based on your interest in science and food, I would totally recomend it.</p>