<p>around how many vounteer hours should one have?</p>
<p>You should have anywhere from threeve to twelven hours.</p>
<p>Seriously, what kind of question is this?</p>
<p>The number depends wildly - and you should be volunteering because you're compassionate, not to be admitted to college. Though I'm not going to kid myself, 99% do volunteer work solely with college in mind.</p>
<p>No offense! But seriously, that's a ridiculous question.</p>
<p>I had 20 hours of CS at the homeless shelter in Ann Arbor, but forgot to list it on my apps.</p>
<p>Wow, another stupid poster who only cares about doing community service to get her stupid a$$ in college. </p>
<p>Why don't u grow up. YOU DO COMMUNITY SERVICE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO, NOT BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE YOUR APPLICATIONS TO COLLEGE LOOK BETTER. </p>
<p>You're shameful.</p>
<p>What they're trying to say is, that you should probably have 100+ service hours if you're going to list it on your app. :)</p>
<p>"Wow, another stupid poster who only cares about doing community service to get her stupid a$$ in college. "</p>
<p>Yes, becuase you know it's a she right?</p>
<p>It depends. Does your school have a program that if you get over so many hours you get something special for graduation, etc? </p>
<p>If you do 250 + hours at my school, you get a silver cord to wear at graduation. If you get 65 (I think that is what it is), you get a 1/2 credit course. </p>
<p>It's really up to you. I was aiming for the silver cord, so I have over 250.</p>
<p>do chords matter? like community sevice cord or career cord--..</p>
<p>No, none of that matters beyond graduation. It's like being valedictorian. It matters when your graduating, but as soon as you do graduate it really makes no difference.</p>
<p>Jeez. Colleges don't do this:</p>
<p>"Oh look! It's bigreddawgie's app! Let's see... GPA - fine, SAT - fine, Volunteer hours - 99!?!?!? Not enough - we need a 100"</p>
<p>No. </p>
<p>As long as you made an effort and consistently volunteered, then the hours shouldn't be a worry for you.</p>
<p>Im doing A lot of community service at the Hellen Keller National Center(it helps deaf-blind adults adjust to there life) starting this summer partially b/c I really think its a interesting way to do volunteer hours and partially b/c of College..And know whats weird people come from all over the world the HKNC so y isnt it called HEllen Kellar International Center(my principal who worked there for 7 years and gave the tour told me people also come from other counttries also)</p>
<p>Volunteering and many ECs (ie club this, club that, piano this, sports that) are overrated with the exceptions of being good enough to win competitions, get recruited, etc.</p>
<p>To the OP, it doesn't matter how many volunteer hours you have. I got into Cornell doing 90 hours of BS over 4 years.</p>
<p>If you have 2000 hours or something but you aren't passionate about what you do, adcoms may sniff it out and figure that you're in it JUST for the sake of college admissions, which would probably lead to rejection.</p>
<p>If you volunteer just to get into college...then...well, you suck.</p>
<p>I Loved the whole environment of The HKNC...and i would love to volunteer there and maybe Eventually work there after college like my principal did and i also will be volunteering at The North Shore Animal League or North Hempstead Animal shelter(Ive loved animals since i was little..) probably North Hempstead b/c im in a program supporting the shelter b/c its not doing so welll..</p>
<p>I think it really matters more what you accomplish with your volunteer hours rather than how many..</p>
<p>theres a great disscussion about ECs somewhere on this site that talks about depth and commitment rather than "padding" your application with things that you have no passion for</p>
<p>I had 11. And I didn't list that, though I listed some CS clubs I was a part of. But I rarely recorded my hours, so in reality, I know I had a lot more.</p>
<p>Don't stress. Do it out of some actual altruistic concern, not out of a need to improve the college apps.</p>