my chance please

mathwiz90
Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:06:45 +0000

I dont understand what your talking about for the magazine.
Is your name on 1/2 of the articles? If it is, that looks bad for the magazine. If it isnt, having your ‘teacher advisor’ as you call it write a reccomendation saying you did will make the college seem suspicious. And about national AP scholar, I have a few JUNIOR friends who haev 10 5s already, so it isnt a hook (and if you self-studied 5 as you tell us, college might think u did that just to look good on ur application, which is REAL BAD. Make sure you note that you did so out of enthusiasm for hte subject).
As my fellow posters noted, grades is NOT a hook. A hook is 1 thing in particular that will make the Adcoms say, “I want this kid.” 10,000s of people have stellar grades, and you dont (as you’ve noted with your average). Colleges might think Yeshiva inflates grades if u have a 92 but 5 As there. And I thought you have only taken 2 classes? Why are you saying how many got 5 As??? I repeat my previous message…
Look at a few of the colleges you are interested in, look what type of people they search for, decide 4 or 5 you think you fit the best, and show passion for one of those things in your essay.
EDIT: And I dont think raising 5000 is a hook, you’llsee.