What will WOW an admissions officer

Applying to College
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<p>Can somebody give examples of something that will wow an admission officer?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>Cure cancer.</p>

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<p>If you have to ask, then you won’t be able to do it.</p>

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<p>^ that’s actually a really accurate answer.</p>

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<p>T26E4’s answer is partly why CC should have a “like” button.</p>

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<p>Start a company and earn a profit, start a non-profit and demonstrate real impact, win national/international competitions in athletics, the arts, science, etc…</p>

<p>People don’t do these things to wow admissions officers… people do these things because they’re talented, dedicated, and extremely passionate about something.</p>

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<p>win in olympic, win nobell price, bring peace to middle east, stop syria uprising…endless…:)</p>

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<p>Your home address is 1600 Pennsylvania ave</p>

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<p>Anything you do that shows dedication and passion can potentially wow an admissions officer, but it’s honestly very true that what people say about not doing things just for college applications. </p>

<p>I’m not going to lie - some of my extracurricular activities are done with college in mind. I take care not to do anything that I’m not interested in just for the sake of applications, but if colleges didn’t consider extracurriculars, I probably would cut back on some of the hours I spend on certain activities. </p>

<p>But four of what I consider to be, by far, my most involved, dedicated, and unique extracurriculars all stemmed from true passions and are things I never would have thought of doing if I just had college in mind. It’s just that I loved something, kept doing it, and opportunities arose.</p>

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<p>Don’t forget the crazy stuff. Harvey Mudd, an exclusive California engineering school with single digit acceptance rates, was more impressed with a girl’s squirt gun fight with her friends using modified high powered squirt guns after a national math decathlon than they were with the fact that she qualified to compete at a national math decathlon.</p>

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<p>Harvey Mudd admissions officers say some pretty off-the-wall things in their “commentary on admissions essays”</p>