<p>Do you take into consideration only junior/senior year or the entire length oh high school?</p>
<p>Well for example both my daughters volunteered at the zoo. Oldest started when she was 12-they then increased the minimum age to 14 which is when my youngest began. The zoo kept track of the hours & they both used recommendations from zoo staff for college apps.
So in their case it was even before high school, just because we didn’t bother separating it out.
But at minimum I would say to include all of high school. You don’t need to include every single thing if they were all different, but at least the ones with a large commitment of time/effort.</p>
<p>^^^
That was for college applications, their high schools also had community service requirements that were specific.</p>
<p>My kids require community service all 4 years of high school. There is a form you have to fill out and send in. I’d track it by each year.</p>
<p>Kids are in the IB program so they need community hours as well - I just was not sure how many years to include for college apps.</p>
<p>Over the entire high school.</p>
<p>How does everyone count (tally up) irregular hours? Some of the apps we have seen want them broken down into weekly time spent? Is it that way on the common app or is it just that you spent 1000 hours over 4 years? I’m just trying to figure out how to record all of this.</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, many of the applications asked number of hours per week, which makes it tough for seasonal activities. You really have to give it your best estimate on much of what the kids do. And many things were accomplished with no idea that anyone would expect verification later.</p>
<p>I think you can fill out however you want. I would lump all the volunteer activities under one category as volunteer and list the total hours. D2 has seasonal volunteer so it can’t be year round.</p>
<p>My daughter included all of her volunteer hours from the summer before 9th grade through the beginning of senior year (when she started doing her applications). She put the total volunteer hours on her resume (which she attached) because the common app per week recording for these activities does not do a good job (although she filled them in there also).</p>
<p>DS counted all hours starting with summer before 9th grade. He averaged hours on apps but offered brief description like “summer assistant” or “after school worker” or “weekend helper”. On rare occasions, ECs are audited.</p>
<p>All four years of high school for sure. As I recall the Common Application has a form to fill out. My younger son had very irregular volunteer hours, even the summer he did most of his volunteering. In the end we just took some sort of an average and tried to be as honest as the form would let us be. I really don’t think anyone on the admissions committee really checks those hours unless they seem very unrealistic. Both sons referred to their volunteer activities in their essays.</p>
<p>My son’s high school requires 250 volunteer hours in order to graduate.They also have to be in assigned categories,like with children, low-income families etc. After every time the supervisor had to sign off the time card. In addition, there are minimum hours to be completed per year.</p>