<p>Does W&M place a lot of weight on community service when looking at applications? Especially an OOS student?</p>
<p>I dunno about how much weight it gets… but I think the stats are something like 3/4 of W&M students do community service. If you have service that you are passionate about, it will help. If you don’t, I don’t know that it will count against you.</p>
<p>I was OOS and didn’t have any community service and I still got in. If you don’t you better have some other solid ECs, though.</p>
<p>I will probably have like 400 hours at a hospital doing hands on work. Could this make for some lack of EC’s?</p>
<p>If that’s all you have? I don’t necessarily think so. I think a problem with community service by itself is that it’s pretty hard to show distinction or leadership by doing it. There really isn’t a metric for adcoms to determine exactly what that community service means. </p>
<p>I think coupling community service with other ECs is the best bet.</p>
<p>Oh no I am just saying my EC’s don’t look as steller as some, but I still have two years so.</p>