as long as you worked for free… Do you concur?
<p>Some high school districts track volunteer hours. The volunteer organizations are approved by the school board, forms are filled out, and turned into your high school. If you are just doing some volunteer work on your own, then you can put it on the application. </p>
<p>Of course, it may appear that lying might work. Actually it might, but adcoms have a way of smelling things out particularly when the GC and teacher recommendations are available. Anyway, lying about volunteer work doesn't seem worth it from a personal perspective. Even Bogart said "never steal anything small" in a movie.</p>
<p>dood...u can never get away with the community service hours. Colleges check. They checked mine and i had to send in documents proving my hours. They check. I swear it. If you don't believe me put whatever hours down on ur application and see what happens</p>
<p>changing 300 hours to 325 hours might not be noticed, but doesn't help much either</p>
<p>lollerskate</p>
<p>my hs does not document my volunteer work...</p>
<p>hmm...</p>
<p>i wouldnt lie about my hours, but i hope they believe me.</p>
<p>See if you can have something said by your GC or a teacher about your volunteer work in their recs. They don't start off questioning you, but might if they rightfully or wrongfully smell something fishy.</p>
<p>On your application to a college you're actually supposed to write down how many hours you spent on each thing? How in the world do u keep track of that? Just like estimate if it's something you do all year long?...Sorry, I'm sure this is a really stupid ?</p>
<p>Yea, the form asks for the number of hours per week, the number of weeks per year, and the years in high school that you did it. It's just stupid. Don't stress over it. Just put down something that you are comfortable with. </p>
<p>Remember that this part isn't that important. The most important thing is taking the most difficult curriculum available, then gpa/rank, and then standardized test scores. After that they want to see "passion" in one or two EC's. Then they look at your essays and recommendations. Believe it or not, they are trying to get a feel for you as a person from the application form. (Large public schools are more numbers driven.)</p>
<p>U'r a pointless person colin..... The answer is yes, but the quality also counts. i concur, but chosing what u want to volunteer in is a big desisino. My father went to harvard, so i know. He volunteered as a shelterer for victims of disasters and stuff so keep that under ur hat.</p>
<p>Is volunteer work necessary for top tier admissions? I have no volunteer work or job to speak of. I hope that dooesn't keep me out of my schools.</p>