<p>When getting my driver's license a while ago, I was asked if I wanted to be a pollworker. I said yes and was later contacted to begin. Now I am doing training and such for the primary and general elections. I will be working 6AM to 8PM on both election days, plus I will have to attend a few classroom training lessons.</p>
<p>Do you think that this experience is worth mentioning on my college app? It isn't anything big (<40 hours total), although it does show that I care about serving my community. Any opinions?</p>
<p>“Do you think that this experience is worth mentioning on my college app?”</p>
<p>Hate to burst a myth for you – most colleges (85%+) don’t care whatsoever your extra-curruicular activities. Do it b/c you’ll indeed learn something. List it if it’s not burdensome to do so. But it won’t help/hurt anything.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure I just read a million posts saying “colleges don’t care about grades, SATs, etc. but rather about ECs”. What do they care about?!</p>
<p>Justin: you have things on backwards. 85% of colleges will admit solely based on grades, transcript and scores.</p>
<p>Only the very selective ones use things such as ECs to differentiate between the many top GPA and high ACT/SAT scorers.</p>
<p>All those guilt trips to get you to do voluntarism or ECs for colleges? – all myths. Now don’t get me wrong. Inherently, they have value for participants. But they have little to no affect for most HS seniors going to college. Really.</p>
<p>Just check the Common Data Sets of a sample list of colleges. You’ll see how few actually give any weight to any ECs.</p>
<p>(also, we’re excluding superstar athletes, musicians or other extraordinary talents of course)</p>
<p>HYPS cares about volunteering and ECs, correct? I understand that most state colleges just care about grades, but I plan on applying to high-caliber schools. Would you recommend that I spend my summer studying for the SAT rather than community service and a job (assuming money is not an issue)?</p>