<p>A month or so ago (while browsing around on some college site) I noticed that someone had said how they had started their own community program which had given them a big edge when applying to some selective schools. After thinking it over for a while, I thought about doing the same thing in my community by starting a small summer tutoring program for kids looking to go to a Catholic high school (which I now attend). During this summer, however, I'm going to have a million other things going on in my life and I'm wondering if starting this program would be worth my time and effort. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy helping people and really wouldn't mind doing the program (my friend even offered to help out) but with my busy schedule in the upcoming months, I'm not sure I would have time for it. Should I go through with my plan and start a community program this summer or would it be better to focus on other activities and leave a bit more of my summer open? (I'll still have a good deal of free time to myself this summer with or without the program). Thanks</p>
<p>If i were you, i'd go for it. I love tutoring people though...</p>
<p>That's a hard question to answer because we don't know exactly how many things you do and how much time you have and how many people you plan on tutoring and how much time they need and how much time you're willing to give them and how long all the things you plan on doing will take and whether you have to study for any standardized tests or anything. So I can't give a yes or no answer; I hope you understand this.</p>
<p>But what sticks out a little bit is that you didn't think about this until someone had mentioned this to get into colleges. If you have your heart set on this then maybe you'd do this and spend lots of time on this and cancel some of your other things that you planned to do. If I were you, I'd ask your parents or someone who knows about these things and ask how much time this will take, and then ask yourself if you're willing to take such a commitment.</p>
<p>Oh, and give it a test run first to make sure that you'd actually want to do this.</p>
<p>I've done tutoring before at my school (I tutored 20-25 kids several times per week for about 4 months) and I honestly enjoy it and don't mind doing the work. I'm familiar with what is required of myself to tutor other kids but my main concern is if it would be a worthwhile job for me over the summer. Obviously it would benefit the kids to get free tutoring but would it help me and my friend out in the long run when we apply to college or is it better to just toss this idea aside.</p>