Molding My Environment Concern To A Hook?

[thericwu]

<p>Stats:
10th - 4.0 UW, 4.25 W
11th - 4 AP’s, probably going to be around 3.8 - 4.0 UW, 4.5 - 4.67 W</p>

<p>One of my AP’s is AP Environmental Science and I’m really getting interested in it.
I recently attended a very exclusive conference at UCLA on how to “green” your business (I was the youngest person by about 20 years), and I was wondering if I can turn my concern for the environment into a HOOK.</p>

<p>I’m in Boy Scouts, and my Eagle Scout project will probably have to do w/ cleaning a forest or something, and I’m going to be president of the Recycling Club next year.</p>

<p>What other things can I do to make this thing more of a hook than an EC? (eg, more projects? more volunteer?)</p>

[enderkin]

<p>that’s not a hook unless you solve global warming or make a significant contribution to the environment. think of how many high schoolers are concerned with the Earth.</p>

[JohnC613]

<p>not a hook. but a tip. interesting, strong passion. but not AMAZING</p>

[2-iron]

<p>Dear fellow Tree Hugger:</p>

<p>GET INVOLVED! Do community work, raise money, try to advertise solar panels…and then write in your essay about your experiences with it. Or take a more scholarly approach and do some research and write a paper on your findings.</p>

<p>JohnC613 is right in that it is not a unique passion or a talent/hook…unless you are uniquely passionate about it. </p>

<p>Best of luck.</p>

[99cents]

<p>From the book, College Hook by Pam Proctor:

The Power of the Hook</p>

<p>Every high school student actually has a College Hook—that one special interest that will cause admissions officials to salivate over an application and significantly increase the odds of getting into a favorite college.</p>

<p>Sometimes students have an obvious Hook, such as the highly ranked basketball player from Florida or the budding cholesterol researcher from Georgia. One student transformed herself into a “foreign correspondent,” and still another became involved in a heart-rending search for a Chinese birth mother.</p>

<p>Other times, I encounter students whose Hook has been as seemingly frivolous or mundane as watching soap operas every afternoon, or reading science fiction, or working during summer vacations at Sears.</p>

<p>In the end, the secret to finding and exploiting a College Hook is to pinpoint a dominant interest, activity, or set of experiences that reflects one of your deepest passions in life—a passion that will set you apart from other students for purposes of college admissions.

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