Mandatory Community Service by School?

Applying to College
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<p>Hi, I'm an international, so forgive me if this question sounds absurd.</p>

<p>Just one question, does community service administered by my school count as community service in the application forms?</p>

<p>For example, my school required seniors to go to a poor public school to tutor a group of kids every week for around 2-3 hours, which would sum up to around 100 hours for the whole year. But it was practically part of the curriculum and the transportation and match-ups were provided by the school. Since the application form usually says Community/Volunteer Service, I'm not sure if this counts since it practically wasn't voluntary at all.</p>

<p>Help! :D</p>

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<p>Yes. You could count that as community service. My kid’s school in the US required X number of volunteer hours each year.</p>

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<p>Lots of high schools in the US require community service hours to graduate - I think the number is now 75hrs by the time you graduate in our school district. And yes that counts.</p>

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<p>Hurray! I thought I was gonna leave the community service part blank. Thank you guys, That probably increased my chance by roughly 1%! (huge feat, imo)</p>