Summer after junior year: no job or internship

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I already tried applying to volunteer at a lot of places (hospital, nursing home, library, nature center, etc) but I got waitlisted. I know my summer before senior year is crucial, but I'm not doing anything significant. I was originally going to travel to Asia, but that got canceled. Will having no job, internship, or volunteer opportuntity hinder my chances for university admissions?</p>

<p>Here are a few things I'm doing
Studying ACT, SAT, AP (possibly self-teach Physics, Chemistry, and Calculus)
Learning French and Chinese
Playing cello in quartet gigs
Reading classic literature
Volunteering IT 2 hrs a week</p>

<p>Having a job is crucial for university applications
I have most of the other credentials
Volunteer:100 hours community service, Camp Counselor
Extracurricular:Key Club, Earth Club, Mentoring for two organizations
Academics: 3.6 GPA, 22 ACT (I really need to raise it to a 25!), 1 AP Class, Honors Science, Honors English</p>

<p>How can I explain to the universities during admissions that I didn't have enough time to find a job or internship between Jan-May? The unemployment rate in my state is 14%! Adults are competing for jobs at the local grocery store and mall. Can I write a college essay about how I did nothing significant over the summer?</p>

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<p>Hard to believe volunteers are waitlisted. You haven’t check around enough. Most places will take anyone with a pulse by just walking in the door.</p>

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<p>Id have a job if my dumbazz parents let me have a licsence and a car</p>

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<p>^you’re fooling yourself. Plenty of students have jobs that they walk to or get rides for.</p>

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<p>You have to apply to volunteer? That sucks. At my city, you just sign up.=/</p>

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<p>Yeah, I’m kind of doing nothing too. I did an internship teaching middle schoolers last year, summer before junior year, and I did Habitat for Humanity ever Saturday. I figure I’ll volunteer, but I’ve just become so incredibly lazy.
I’m really really determined to teach myself Russian this summer though, so hopefully that’ll look like something. Oh, and I’m going this week-long program/camp in engineering but I don’t care about engineering at all.
I read classical literature all the time, so I can’t cop out and say “Oh, I read classical literature over the summer.” Ugh.</p>