How much community service hours look good to colleges

Applying to College
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<p>I have racked up over 300, close to 400 hours of community service hours since freshman year. A good hundred of those hours were spent doing various projects with school clubs and independently while the rest was spent volunteering at a local nursing home. I did not take on the volunteer work just to impress colleges though, I really do enjoy volunteering and being active in the community.</p>

<p>However, I did not really document a lot of these hours, although the hours spent at the nursing home are on some kind of file.</p>

<p>How much community service usually looks really good to colleges?</p>

<p>Thank you for taking the time to read this :D</p>

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<p>I think that several hundred is pretty typical for people applying to some of the top schools. </p>

<p>I don’t think this is a valid question: “How much community service usually looks really good to colleges?”</p>

<p>It’s not just quantity but quality - implementing new programs looks better than just volunteering and working in a school to teach special-ed kids to read probably looks better than volunteering as a camp counselor.</p>