<p>want to go seas and yes i suck at history 
so farr:
asian male. ny
2010 sat. (m/r/w) (740/690/580) def gonna try to kick it up to ~ 22/23
sat 2s. 760 math1, 570 world so far.
gonna take act in sept.
didn’t do so good in school fresh/soph year.
aps: 3 world, 5 bio, 5 amer (taking physics, calc bc, russian next year)
gpa: 101ish weighted
ec: church and all the stuff that comes with it(vol. events, yg etc), volunteer at random places long term.
sports: vball, tennis, ping pong (won tournaments in each)
capt of tennis (junior &senior) - top in divison
plently of clubs and stuff.
i was gonna do cooper summer program, but i got rejected 
what do i do now??
im thinking summer tennis stuff like just play tournaments and stuff
any takes?</p>
<p>show passion by being passionate about something. if you really care about your activities, that should come across on the app.</p>
<p>honestly, if your first 2 years of HS were lackluster, you REALLY need to make up for that by doing well on your SAT’s. </p>
<p>do you think there’s any chance you could try to get recruited for tennis?</p>
<p>definitely pull up your writing. your cr+m was similar to mine (760 on cr and 680 on math), get writing up another 100 points and you should be in good shape. take another SAT 2 and get >700 on it. do super well in junior year and basically show that you really enjoy your activities and actively pursue to better yourself in it. i did scientific research since sophomore year with a mentor at williams college and had 3 abstracts published along with doing well in national and state competitions (finalist).</p>
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<p>This is exactly the type of stuff that puts people to sleep; if you can’t even get excited about it or articulate what it is, how are the adcoms going to get excited about it?</p>
<p>wait, are you saying that you don’t have a passion but you want to make it seem like you do? Or you have a passion, but need help getting it across to the adcoms?</p>
<p>the second. right now i play in tournaments and leagues for tennis, im not sure what else i could do. im planing on getting a summer tennis job to train kids and stuff. do you think they would see tennis as a “passion” through this?</p>
<p>Dude, the fact that you have to ask how to show “passion” shows that you have none to begin with.</p>
<p>If you have “it”, you will do what you do without thinking of adcoms, and everything will fall into place. There are ways to show your passion for something, but no one on this website can tell you. You must find it yourself, enjoy it, be successful at it, and when this all happens, you will know.</p>
<p>However, don’t look for something prestigious as a means of showing “passion” just because it looks good on paper. An officer whose been around will see through the fraudulence. </p>
<p>All you have to do is look around CC (esp. the WAMC forum) to see kids who are “grinders” and stack their applications with stuff they hardly did except to get into a top school. That’s not passion or creativity, that’s conformity in the worst way, worse than being average for the sake of being average. Some of these kids will get accepted because they are hard workers, but the others will be rejected and don’t know how to handle it cause they were given a formula for admission into a USNWR Top 10 school. The Ancient Eight wants thinkers (except Wharton at Penn, they want a-holes), not factory-issued workaholics. </p>
<p>They get plenty of stat-stacked applicants, but they’re good at finding the ones who have an aptitude for being very talented at something or the ones who change their communities, because these students will be very good at something in the real world or change the world, sometimes both.</p>
<p>Since you don’t look like a grinder, I’ll end this positively. The will to better yourself AND and the world around you through an activity is the true definition of passion. Good luck in your endeavors. I hope that when you do find something you’re good at that defines who you are, you’ll be as passionate in that activity as I was in typing this diatribe :).</p>
<p>Passion is not something you need to show. If you have passion it will be reflected in your application. Passion is something that has been developed over the years. For example someone who is Passionate about helping children who are critically ill may have volunteered every summer for years, first working as a camp counselor, and then advancing to a camp leader. Then that person may have done fund raising to raise money for that particular group. The person is passionate about it because it is a big part of who they are.
Someone who is passionate about film may have first taken film courses at film schools during the summer for several summers, and then started his or her own film production company writing, producing and directing his own films, and then written full length screenplays and submitted them in national and international competitions and won awards, and directed, and produced short films and had them screened and shown at film festivals.
There are some people who have been passionate about something for years but just dont know how to reflect it in the application. That is different than listing a bunch of activities that a person has been involved in and asking how to make oneself look passionate in their application.
Passion is something that is developed over years and excites and motivates that person to do more because of the enjoyment they get from it and give others.</p>