<p>How do you think work experience weighs into admissions.
I work twenty hours a week at the library
Do adcoms think:
a) Wow, this kid has great time management skills.
b) Cool, its like another extracurricular, though not huge
c) Good, this kid doesn't just study 24/7
d) The library is not impressive; working at the hospital would be.
e) None of the above
f) all or some of the above.</p>
<p>with your schedule.....A</p>
<p>Hey, BTW, how many other people have or are working non-summer part time jobs? Where?</p>
<p>anybody out there?</p>
<p>What sort of job is it? Did you get paid and stuff and are you doing it because you want extra pocket money or what?</p>
<p>I work at the library shelving books and crap. I did it to help pay for my car insurance and gas. I also hoped that it would help my admissions. But I think that I'm working too much and kind of want to quit. i've saved up quite a bit.</p>
<p>I used to have 2 jobs - 3 in the summer. Since this is my senior year, I wanted to work less so I can be more involved in my school activities. I'm working one job right now, and it's an office job for about 15 hours per week. It pays very well, but since I have to pay all of my bills and basically provide for myself, I find myself more broke now than I have ever been before. Ocasionally, I still work for my former employer, but the money I earn from that instantly goes to paying my bills.</p>
<p>To answer Maguo's question, I'm sure any work experience would be great on a college app. I didn't know that a person (with no college degree) could work at a library though. I knew you could volunteer of course, but I didn't know you could get pay for it. Nonetheless, good luck with your app!</p>
<p>I have been working year long as a secretary/tech for 2-3 years now. pays pretty well.</p>
<p>I work @ CVS 20 hours a week.....I'm doing the job so I can pay for a trip to France. I hope colleges will look as this as taking advantage of my resources, etc. If you think about it, 20 hours a week is a ridiculously long amount of time...you could fit another major EC in with another 20 hours.</p>
<p>I don't recommend working a lot during the school year, esp with heavy involvement in ECs, because it is sooo tough to manage and easy to be lazy and just skip "non-essential" hw which may not be essential at the time but ultimately helps on exams.</p>
<p>I wonder, how many people who get accepted to Harvard had no job experience?</p>
<p>Is it common for high school students to work in US? I'm rather sure that none of my three seniors accepted by Harvard last year had any job experience. Holding a job while in school is really quite rare here. You just don't have the time..</p>
<p>how many hours would you say you have to work a week (say at a fast food restaurant etc) for it to matter to adcoms?</p>
<p>I don't know, jay01. I think that 15 hours would be the mininum. I totally agree with JTC; I've found that I've become really lazy after starting to work. However, it does pay really, really well. However, we had a student who was virtually identical to me in stats (except I have research experience) working 40 hours a week and not get in (he got waitlisted). About half of my classmates do hold jobs and or play sports but most ease off during the school year somewhat. Rayyy, you had 3 seniors accepted to Harvard in one year? Wow.</p>
<p>Umm it just happens that schools in singapore select students based only on academic results, and my school is one of the top, so we have lots of academic superstars. Think we send at least 30 people to Oxbridge in UK and 30 to the ivy league every year...</p>
<p>Very few people in my level hold a job now. Kind of difficult when school and extracurriculars take up so much time.</p>
<p>I lived in singapore in grades 9-10. I had plenty of time to work- but then I did go to an international school so the workload was a joke compared to you guys. ray- ur school sends 30 people to Ox/Cam each year? lemme guess- raffles inst?</p>
<p>Does work experience really make more responsible people?</p>