<p>i think 100,000 hours of hospital volunteer work is a major hook. that's a world record. i can't imagine any college rejecting you. i don't think anyone has accomplished anything close to 100,000 hrs of hospital volunteer work. all the posters above claiming that they or their friends have volunteered over 100,000 hrs are a bunch of liars.</p>
<p>"Goldshadow:
how do you get 12.0 on a 4.0 GPA scale???????"</p>
<p>I heard about this kid. He has been taking AP/IB classes since the age of 7 -- he even had the collegeboard tailor-make some AP classes/tests just for him!</p>
<p>How do you even keep track of 100,000 hours?</p>
<p>Well if its world records colleges are going for I win. I can FLY.</p>
<p>^^^ what a liar ^^^</p>
<p>wow goldshadow was joking..you guys need to lighten up..</p>
<p>do they REALLY add the time you spend in your mother's womb?
wow thanks guys!! that really helps me out. I now have 120,000 volunteering hours. hopefully that combined with my 2 nobel prizes will tip the admissions decision in my favor.</p>
<p>No, actually, he wasn't joking. That was me last year. I retook my SATs to get lower scores and failed some classes to get my new GPA;I think I was rejected last year because I'm too intellectually bourgeois for a pithy institution like MIT.</p>
<p>If you are in the guiness book of world records I think that is an automatic acceptance to any college. Making the worlds largest pizza helped me get into harvard.</p>
<p>The inability to detect sarcasm from some of the posters on this board kills me.</p>
<p>OMG.....please stop.
It was obv. a joke</p>
<p>Come on people, it's 17.1*1* years for 150,000 hours, not 17.12 as someone had previously calculated. You forgot leap years. With 17.11 years of volunteering, you'll never get into MIT. You need that additional .01 year.</p>
<p>Yeah I agree, some people are missing the sarcasm. Wow</p>
<p>No, 100,000 hours is definitely not enough, as someone previously stated. My friend's cousin's best friend's brother's boss' dog sitter's niece's classmate's mother's hairdresser's brother's son did 150,000 hours in the hospital, 100,000 hours in Uganda, discovered the cure for the common cold (but it hasn't been released yet, because they are still working on perfecting the label and name for it), and won the nobel peace prize for finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. He also did his senior thesis proving unicorns existed, and he had a 8.9 GPA (unweighted). He got rejected from all the ivy leages probably because he hadn't handed out peace beads in alteast 14 countries and he needed a 9.0 GPA.</p>
<p>This thread is too funny...</p>
<p>mugenxtsubasa, it probably would have helped had your friend's cousin's best friend's brother's boss' dog sitter's niece's classmate's mother's hairdresser's brother's son would have cured cancer and been a professional athlete since he was 2.</p>
<p>k u guys killed it</p>
<p>lol no they didnt</p>
<p>College admissions are such that the smartest kids only get into flagship stateU and to pull off a top 50 college (forget Ivy) you need to cure cancer. For Ivys you need all of that and competing in the olympics and ending world hunger and either writing a pulitzer prize winning novel or being elected secretary general of the UN. It's hard out there in college admissions.</p>
<p>Wow...i should have lied and put 150,000...too bad I already sent in my apps</p>
<p>hahahahaha.</p>