<p>I'm going to be a Junior this year, and I really haven't recorded much of my small volunteer activities throughout the year bc they didn't really mean much to me. but the big ones I've done are all during the summer. Would that be okay.. I mean, I REALLY lack time during the school year. Freshman year i did about 45 hours counseling at flute camp. This year I have 20 hours teaching children creative writing at a summer camp & 42 hrs for helping the homeless in Washing D.C. Is it ok to cram, to continue what I'm doing?</p>
<p>it's fine to have the bulk be over the summer, but 20 hours isn't much. you should definitely try to get some in this school year.</p>
<p>I don't know of any college that requires community service for admission. Virtually all of the colleges that do care about volunteering will count it for merit scholarship consideration, not admission. The exception are places like HPYS, but even they don't require community service. What they require is some kind of strong ECs, and impact is far more important than hours spent.</p>
<p>If HPYS is your goal, you'd be better off spending your summer avidly pursuing an EC that you care about enough to do it with impact -- passion, creativity, leadership.</p>