<p>I worked as a volunteer at chess camps for a few weeks this summer, and the director of the chess camp gave me some money for helping out. It wasn't much (less than minimum wage), so can I still call this volunteering on the Common Application?</p>
<p>Note: I'm homeschooled, so there's no form of "collecting" volunteer hours or anything like that. I self-report my volunteering to colleges.</p>
<p>Is the camp for profit? If so, it’s not volunteer work, it maybe considered as an internship.</p>
<p>@oldfort: The camp supports a non-profit organization, if that’s what you were asking, but it does collect money from students.</p>
<p>I think any time you get paid, especially from an organization which charges people, is hard to be classified as volunteer work. If you have worked at a non-profit camp for disabled or disadvantaged students, it maybe considered as volunteer, but not for a chess camp.</p>
<p>DB: however you categorize it, the distinction is meaningless to your college application readers. Don’t sweat about it.</p>