The College Hook
Packaging Yourself to Win the College Admissions Game
Chapter One
The Power of the Hook
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.
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.
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.
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
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