<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/591556-does-anyone-know-undergraduate-rankings-biology.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/591556-does-anyone-know-undergraduate-rankings-biology.html</a></p>
<p>Well this thread should show you about bio majors. Though it varies, I (sadly) am unsure how much more competitive bio is in particular. Usually stuff like AEM, pre med, etc. gets talked about more.</p>
<p>ah thanks for the linkie honorlions! I deeply appreciate you for being very responsive on this thread :)</p>
<p>could anyone chance me once more? thanks!</p>
<p>I don’t think working at your parents’ restaurant counts as volunteer work, and it will look creepy if you try to count it that way. However, it could be part of your essay about how you contribute to your family and what it means to you, especially if you give it the spin of how you’re all in this together. People don’t count babysitting for their siblings or other activities of that sort as volunteering, either. I remember reading a great essay by an Asian American writer about working in his parents’ small shop–detailing the feel of the refrigerated cases, the ache in his back from carrying cases of soda, stuff like that. If you could include those kinds of details that describe what it’s actually like to do that stuff, to be in a restaurant your parents own (the clinking of glasses, what happens in the back room, the customers, your parents worries, your own wishes for freedom and yet sense of obligation, etc.), it could make an incredible essay, shining with truth.</p>
<p>thanks for your input endicott! that subject was troubling me quite often now…then how should i put such as? I was thinking between work experience or volunteer but both has qualification errs:</p>
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<p>volunteer
<p>Then finally.
what about that much hours that I have put into? Would that really be counted as nothing? 5 years of helping out every single saturday on weekend totaling about 3400 hours that could have been spent on leisure or social for anyone to enjoy…is nothing except a topic for an essay…?</p>
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<p>Call me an idealist, but I wouldn’t call the satisfaction and maturity that comes with the ability to assist one’s parents “nothing”.</p>
<p>mmm 
I would say touche but in this case, I agree…it indeed taught me numerous elements of life and strengthened the family bond together.
but would i only be limited to express this notion in an essay and no other?</p>
<p>Yeah that guy up there is right, these adcoms do have been doing their job for ages. How is it that so many famous, wealthy people go to these colleges? Cause someone all along recognized a unique type of maturity and persona. </p>
<p>I was assuming that you already knew that colleges will look fondly on that</p>
<p>You could probably put it in the work category with an asterisk explaining exactly what you did–and then ALSO write about it. Honestly, I agree with HYPSM hopeful and Honorlion, that this kind of experience would be very favorably looked at, because it makes you look mature. If you treat it as a way of helping your family survive in a new land, that sounds very adult, as if you are willingly taking responsibility, whereas if you make it sound as if you’re a volunteer, it sounds as if you could walk away from it and resented it. That “of course I worked with my family and we all pulled together” attitude seems very powerful.</p>
<p>wow i see…thank you so much guys, these helps mean very greatly to me…!
as usual, I just arrived home from helping out at restaurant and I’ve been thinking about your insights and suggestions as I was cleaning up dishes and mopping the floors. Again, thanks alot guys! :)</p>
<p>dear fellow members, could you chance me once more if possible? Thank you!</p>
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