<p>What is the average and above average community services hours to have completed before you send your applications in senior year? I am mostly looking for what would be above average, but not extreme. </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Using the "President's Volunteer Service" award recognition as a guideline:</p>
<p>100 - 174 hours per year (bronze level)
175 - 249 hours per year (silver level)
250 or more (gold level)</p>
<p>YOU decide which works for you. My D (just graduating) earned the bronze level this year, and that was while taking a full course load at school & working 2 part-time jobs (weekends).</p>
<p>Maybe try for the silver level...it's doable.</p>
<p>Yeah, I might be able to get around 100 hours in Junior year, and possibly another 50 in the first half of senior year. </p>
<p>So how would 150 hours altogether look then?</p>
<p>not bad for a HS'er</p>
<p>The concept of how many hours of community service looks good is ridiculous and didn't even exist 10 years ago. It appears completely transparent to me and I would think to admissions officers too without real sincere substance behind it.</p>
<p>I second gellino's point.</p>
<p>I can't believe some of the community service activities you guys do. Do you realize how much money you would be making if that community service is a job? That's nearly $2000 of your time you are "volunteering", and colleges will see it the same.</p>
<p>oh please gellino, tell me, why are you on this forum anyways? It is a forum about college admissions, therefore, the questions will obviously have to do about college admissions, how else should I word the question?</p>
<p>Anyways, there shouldn't be a concern with 'sincere substance', to tell you the truth, the only reason many of us do EC's or anything to begin with is because it would "look good on a college app." However, I believe the difference lies in the type of EC's you do. If you are doing all types for no reason, then I feel that is superficial. However if you have really thought out and searched EC's and ideas that are related to your interests, I don't see whats wrong with it. ;)</p>
<p>Anyways, as for this Community service, I am looking for some round-about goal so I can schedule my time for next year. I do agree with you A2Wolves6, I'm sure we can make alot of money from the time spent doing volunteering. On the other hand, many of the programs I want to get into, and some scholarships and awards require community service.</p>
<p>What awards can a High School student get with 1500 hours+?
I have that much allready, plus I'll be getting much, much more than that.</p>
<p>250+ for president's volunteer service thing? why did i not get nominated? do you fill out an application or something?</p>
<p>oh well, too late for that.</p>
<p>"Anyways, there shouldn't be a concern with 'sincere substance', to tell you the truth, the only reason many of us do EC's or anything to begin with is because it would "look good on a college app."</p>
<p>Wrong.</p>
<p>I don't even see why you guys measure community service in hours. All of my applications just asked for my community service activities not the number of hours I did those activities. Besides colleges recognize the fact that they can not possibly check your community service hours. Therefore they know that 99.9% of the people will round off to a higher number and they won't be able to put a lot of weight into that part of your application. Because one person could be being honest well someone else could be blatantly lying about it.</p>
<p>"Besides colleges recognize the fact that they can not possibly check your community service hours."</p>
<p>Not always. For my school, you receive a Community Service sheet every year (if you're doing any CS) and you need to tell what you did and all the hrs completed, and plus, you need the signature of the Head person/chairman of the event. For example, let say I put 670 hrs of CS. But then colleges, for some random reason, call my GC to check. If the counseling office has no track/record of my activity log sheet(s) whatsoever, then I would be pretty ****ed.</p>
<p>Well at my place we have to sign in and out when volunteering, so they know our hours.</p>
<p>bobbobbob: <a href="http://www.presidentialserviceawards.org/tg/PSSA/%5B/url%5D">http://www.presidentialserviceawards.org/tg/PSSA/</a></p>
<p>damn. i wish i knew about this earlier. ive racked up about 200hrs/year for the past 3 years.</p>
<p>that is crazy. At my school no one keeps track except for the person that is doing the activites. So there is no accountability.</p>
<p>hey guess what, I put a total of 30 hours of service including 20 from freshman year on my apps. I got into Stanford and a whole bunch of other top schools. And no, i did not have an amazing hook and my grades/SATs were great but nothing spectacular.</p>
<p>The point is. Community Service is nice to have, but you definitely do NOT require hundreds of volunteer hours to get into a good college.</p>
<p>im reading the site, and is this per year?</p>
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hey guess what, I put a total of 30 hours of service including 20 from freshman year on my apps. I got into Stanford and a whole bunch of other top schools. And no, i did not have an amazing hook and my grades/SATs were great but nothing spectacular.</p>
<p>The point is. Community Service is nice to have, but you definitely do NOT require hundreds of volunteer hours to get into a good college.
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<p>Phew!! Thank god! I'm probably going to have only 20-25 hours at the time of applying to colleges..</p>