SATs are not as important as you think.

tryingforcollege
Sun, 06 May 2012 13:55:14 +0000

I have been spending the last two years working on a sustainability project in Haiti regarding the 2010 earthquake and now speak fluent Creole. I have been working with NGO’s in the Port au Prince area, trying to relocate families, educate children, and get people back on their feet. I was also captain and first seed player on the Varsity Tennis team, on the NHS Executive Board, and a tutor for dyslexic children.

There is the OP’s hook !
He/She followed her passion…and did what normal teens don’t do.
Congratulations !

But reality is 99% of us don’t go to Haiti…so guess we are stuck with competing with the rest of the pack :)