Volunteer hours?

<p>I will have eighty hours total for my UC app. Do you think this is adequate? Are volunteer hours actually as important as people make them out to be?</p>

<p>All UCs except berk and LA cap at 100 hours of community service so you should be pretty good.</p>

<p>At the top level, so many top tier applicants have community service hours that you need something to make you stand out amongst the thousands of applicants with community service hours at, say, the soup kitchen? the local hospital?</p>

<p>I hear obtaining and committing to a job a very good extracurricular although it technically doesn't count for community service hours.</p>