<p>I got a gold medal for the presidential service award. does that look good for colleges?</p>
<p>Yes...that means you have done 250+ hours, correct?</p>
<p>i want to get one. i've done a lot of hours too</p>
<p>how do i get one?</p>
<p>yes. I did 250+ hours. What i did is this. I applied for the prudential spirit of community awards and was selected as a representitive. On the application i wrote that i did 250+ hours. Luckily, prudential and the program that distributes the presidential awards are now partners. It took me 6 months just for the package to arrive. it includes an official letter from the white house. Is this significant on college applications in your opinion?</p>
<p>To get the award you log your volunteer hours on presidentialserviceawards.gov. If you have more than 100 between september and august of a year you get bronze, 175+ you get silver, and 250+ you get gold. I think it looks great on college apps because then it proves that you have done a lot of volunteering and that you didn’t make it up. Also, colleges like to see consistency with volunteering (instead of like a mission trip they like to see weekly tutoring or sunday school or something) and you need that to get the award.</p>