<p>I am adamant about including volunteer work into my schedule this year since I think it will help me stay in perspective about the importance of schoolwork and other such annoyances. But my mother is convinced that my GPA will fall if I don't immediately come home after school and do homework or whatever. What can I say to convince her that doing volunteer work can be good for the college admission's process as well? Thanx in advance.</p>
<p>Tell her that getting a good GPA w/o anything else isn't gonna look very good to the adcoms, and if you have some other activity to do, you'll learn how to budget your time better. Good luck!</p>
<p>Maybe you can convince your mom to let you do it for a month, then at the end of the month, let her make her final decision.</p>
<p>Tell her it will be good to develop time management skills now when in college you'll have to balance school AND a job AND about 40 million other things.</p>
<p>Or, instead of doing volunteer work after school, you can do it on weekends.</p>
<p>tell her you are going to only goto a state university unless you do a ton of activities... then she'll push you to do more lol</p>
<p>if your mom is asian, just tell her that it looks good for college. (it's always worked for me :-D)</p>
<p>if not...i don't know</p>
<p>You could just volunteer on weekends. That's what I plan to do. All of those hours can really add up.</p>
<p>I did almost all of my volunteering during the summer. It's so much easier and it gives you a productive way to kill time.</p>
<p>Tell her if you don't volunteer you won't make it into college, if you don't make it into college you won't get a decent job, if you don't get a decent job you will starve, if you starve you will die. I don't think she would rather have you die, than have a slightly lower gpa.</p>
<p>I volunteer only on weekends, which could possibly work for you. The hospital I volunteer with doesn't let high school students volunteer during the week. </p>
<p>If your parents still don't let you do it. Bring up community college. That could change their minds pretty quickly. :p</p>