<p>My school only requires 4 hours of community service...lol</p>
<p>Heh, I only will have around 30 (we need 20 for national honor society)
But I have sports year-round and work all summer
And applying to very selective schools</p>
<p>I haven't the slightest idea how many I have- I'm homeschooled, so I don't need them for graduation. Most of my volunteer work is within my EC's, so I'm not sure if that completely counts as community service. (Piano @ church, volunteer w/ local skating classes)</p>
<p>okay, i was just curious.</p>
<p>i consider volunteer to be anything you've given your time to that has a greater service than yourself. whether it means helping a teacher fax in school, or doing a local art program in the community, or working at a hospital, or running your own charity dinner.</p>
<p>i have 600-700 hrs, but don't be suddenly freaked out.
service HAS BEEN a huge part of my high school career. </p>
<p>and dont worry, i don't have a million math awards or a varsity state championships to put down on my application, and I'm applying to very selective schools.</p>
<p>Over 400. I was actually quite surprised when I counted it up :)</p>
<p>Just racking up hours is not hard. Find an organization and spend 8 hours there every Saturday, do that, say, 44 weeks of the year [you won't be able to make it every time], and you've got 342 hours a year. Do that starting Freshman Year and you've got 1000 hours by the end of Junior year.</p>
<p>Uh... 0. And highly selective. Never found anything that really caught my interest... probably should have looked harder, but too late now, I guess.</p>
<p>Well, I have some hours, but I won't list them, because it's honestly not a part of my life.</p>
<p>about 1,000 hours, maybe a few more. </p>
<p>nyu is the most selective school I'm applying to... I'd guess that's in the moderate to selective range?</p>
<p>Slight branch from the topic here, but how exactly are you guys addressing this extra curricular involvement that you list "300 hours" for or whatever? Like, are sticking that itself as an activity, and just listing 300 hours as the description of what you did, spreading everything out individually, or just calculating this total to tack another number onto yourself? I really am unsure of how the whole community service thing is supposed to be done on college apps. I, for example, am in stuff like NHS, so I get service hours for that, and I do a recycling thing every week and stuff like this, but how does all of fit into what I put for "Community Service"? Just to put it into perspective, people I have known apply from around my area haven't really counted everything they did for NHS and stuff, but people I know other places (in NY) counted EVERY single thing they did. Sorry about the long post, but I'd really appreciate if somebody could clear this up for me. Thanks!</p>
<p>450-500 hours in one activity
another ~100 in scattered activities (mostly through school's community service organization)</p>
<p>very selective</p>
<p>and sry but idk.. i'm making a resume and detailing each thing separately.</p>
<p>S1 had about 140, scattered widely. Got into two T10 schools.
S2 is a junior and is ~300 right now, will have ~200 more by the time he applies to colleges. Is looking at selective schools, not HPYSM.</p>
<p>Over 250 from service projects, Eagle projects, OA ordeal, and my own Eagle project.</p>
<p>Not going to mention it though....I think that kinda goes against "service."</p>