<p>"i dont really understand how this app proccess works, are you supposed to market yourself?"</p>
<p>YES. Resume = brag sheet = ample opportunity to (non-exaggeratively) show off.</p>
<p>Don't get me wrong--it's not good to be arrogant; but if you leave things out for the sake of humility, you're short-changing yourself.</p>
<p>i did 45,000 hours, beat that *****es</p>
<p>you really HAVE to list your community sevice hours. It was a serious personal dilemma for me to decide what to say and what not to say because I truly believe in the saying, "don't let your right hand know what you left hand is doing". However in the end I decided honesty was the best policy and I listed all of my work; my rationale was that every student applying to Harvard will have some form of community service and list it, if I didn't list my volunteer work Harvard might make asssumptions about me that aren't true. Listing hours though-- definately not. I have no IDEA how many hours I have done. Is it an unwritten rule that we must count every hour we are doing good?? Quantifying the worth of a person by how many hours they spend helping others is dehumanizing.</p>
<p>i tutor, but it would look bad if i said 10 hours a year, because honestly, 20 weeks at 30 mins per week is enough...</p>
<p>Depends, I have a ton of community service hours, but I didnt' really consider them as that until the application and I was like, um, I can't think of any, and my Mom started down the list, and, well, it was really long. I didn't put most of them on there though, the regular weekly ones I put down as EC's because they took that much time, a few I mentioned in a essay, and I listed service as part of some of the organizations I'm in. </p>
<p>Like, I put down "My Brothers Keeper" which our family has worked with for 5 years now picking up and dropping off food and clothes as a regular one because it takes 4-5 hours a week, a hour a day adds up. </p>
<p>In the essay, I mentioned working with my autistic sister, which was NOT easy, and how hard it was for me at first. Because she is my sister, she knows how to make me mad and what buttons to push and that kind of thing, so it was a big deal for me. </p>
<p>But don't ever do hours for the hours, because if you hate it, frankly, you won't have anything good to say about in (unless you're a really good liar) and if they ask you there will be a blank face...</p>
<p>But if you have a life where you spend it doing music or exploring the orgin or thumbtacks then focus there. Everyone's unique, that's whats so neat about it all... </p>
<p>Service hours are just a way of showing you are "involved in" your community and don't spend your life locked away with your books and a desklamp. If you involve yourself in other things in your community, and that's what you have, I woudln't worry about it.</p>
<p>yeah i hate it too, they concept of recording volenteer hours is wrong in my opinion, i cant begin to tell you how many students are just doing volenteer hours at my school just for the "hours" (i feel kinda bad, cause this includes me to some degree) Our GC's tend to push it as a major factor in college apps so everyone is insane over it. (i suppose its convinient for them-having a bunch of volenteers when ever they need them, but im not here to start any conspiracy theories lol) Its such a big deal at my school, thats why i was wondering about it. thanks for all your responses!</p>
<p>d3ity, of course the laws applied to her. She was satisfied by it. She felt like she wasserving her purpose for God. Now, it might not seem selfish like money grubbing or greed. But, as long as she is getting SOMETHING out of it, whether it be a feeling, some material possession... something that fulfills her in some way she is following the basic econ law of "human nature=some self interest."</p>
<p>Again, sorry for the randomness.</p>