<p>I wrote too specifically about why my purpose in life has something to do with Electrical Engineering</p>
<p>actually i dont have an affair with the adcoms (duh)
my hooks:</p>
<p>started chessclub
captain of quiz bowl-one of the best teams in the city
lead designer for school website
orchestraconcertmaster
assistant conductor
music teacher
private piano accompanist
manager and captain of chinese lion dancing
tae kwan doe assistant instructor
Tutor in hong kong (english)
created my own website
founder/president of an organization that teaches old people computers
speak 4 languages
first generation college student</p>
<p>i dont have anything hot tho, like “intel science winner-I invented a robot!”</p>
<p>i protected president clinton in an assasination in 1998 by pushing him out of the way cuz i saw the bullet coming and the bullet hit the back wall and he was sooo thankful but it wasnt on the news cuz i didnt want to make a big deal out of it and that was wat my essay was about but i guess harvard doesnt care that i saved the president do they!~</p>
<p>Athletic reruit, CD demonstrating “special talent”- violin, legacy</p>
<p>national breakdance champion :)</p>
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<li>volunteered in SOuth Africa every Christmas with AIDs victims</li>
<li>Volunteer Coordinator at St. Lukes Hospital</li>
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<p>Yea…I am a legacy, native-american, jew from alaska. I took a total of 32 APs (all 5s) classes, with a cumalitive GPA of 5.0 (on a 4.0 scale). I published 6 books. Also, I’ve been feeding the kids in Africa for 7 years …I won basically every award possible for Alaskan Kids. Oh, my dad donates 300k to harvard a year. It’s cause we’re rich ******* like that.</p>
<p>Just kidding…lol</p>
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<p>hmmm I think mine would be that I’m a transfer student from a really small school (Kenyon) that got a lot of press this year for being the last town in the US to finish voting… at 4am. Also, I’m native american AND I think my essays were very good. Besides that…er…scores are about average for where I applied and gpa too…I’m trying to get to NYU.</p>
<p>cool thread…</p>
<p>i used illegal drugs my freshman year…got arrested for three different counts of possession of different drugs/paraphernalia. this on top of an assault and battery charge against a school teacher the previous year. I had a 2.67 GPA that year.</p>
<p>moved to a private school…now have a 4.0 overall gpa after 1st semester of senior year. got into varsity sports, hospital internship, intel excellence in computer science award for synopsis silicon valley science championships beating out kids from top bay area high schools (monta vista, etc)</p>
<p>now im going to ucsd :)</p>
<p>I’m a sarcastic a**hole.</p>
<p>(And that’s actually true…Or is it?)</p>
<p>My hook…I love Literature ^_^</p>
<p>id would actually just like to say good job dru2k. good role model for future generations. and a great show of personal strength. ucsd should be proud to have ya.</p>
<p>rsi, nih grant</p>
<p>enough said.</p>
<p>i applied to a scholarship specifically for asians and i talked abt my cultural backgd n family history n stuff… while my fellow finalists were preppy intl school students who couldnt wait to tell everyone how american their accent was n how many US summer programs they had took part in before. that basically sums it up i guess.</p>
<p>by graduation will have over 100 foreign language credits (one year of a language = 10 credits. i’m going to have studied 6 differant languages)</p>
<p>one of the highest ranked non-native speaking spanish students in teh state of california (based on a standardized test that i took before traveling to paraguay last summer)</p>
<p>travel to latin america 2 summers in a row living by myself in a rural community helping them implement projects (pretty much peace corps but for high school/college kids and just for the summer. it’s a very well known and liked program by admissions people at colleges). went to paraguay for 2 monts last summer and oging to dominican republic for 2 months this summer. very few people do the program 2 summers in a row</p>
<p>i’m Black (but i guess that doesn’t matter since i’m going to a historically Black college); am just about fluent in Spanish; am one of very few female computer science majors that applied, and had only 1 extracurricular activity.</p>
<p>oh, i guess that last one’s not really a hook not really a hook…</p>
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<li>taking Russian and Spanish - senior year both of these will be AP - taking “college Russian” junior year but senior year taking the real thing since they are introducing it that year </li>
<li>I speak Russian and English fluently, hopefully will earn to speak at least some Spanish later</li>
<li>Immigrant, when I apply I will not be a citizen but I am a permanent resident </li>
<li>Do all three seasons of sports</li>
<li>Magnet school - a verrrrrrry impressive one in NYC
But sheesh some people are so much more interesting… horseback riding? breakdancing? national bla bla bla? can I cry?</li>
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<p>Daughter was named Virginia’s Outstanding Young Agriculturist
4-H All-Star
Member, National Champion Horse Judging Team
FFA Star Green Hand, Star Chapter Farmer, Chapter Leadership Award in 10th and 11th grade
800 in verbal SAT (although only 520 in Math)
received President’s Volunteer Service Award (tons of community service)</p>
<p>Cons:
No school sports (AD could not be talked into equestrian team - lol! I think he was afraid on rainy days the kids would try to bring their horses in the gym to poop on his shiny wood floor!))
Very active in a ton of areas in the FFA and 4-H, and was an officer in this SCA this year, but no other school activities
Weighted GPA okay, but non-weighted only 3.5; although in all IB courses</p>