<p>Would colleges consider a student who has two part time jobs to help ease their parent's finances?</p>
<p>Like for me, both my parents work, but most of the money goes to paying the rent and other stuff. So I got myself two part time jobs (it does really cut back on social life), to help them out (like for many senior things, like dues and such, I pay, and school supplies I pay for some of it).</p>
<p>This does contribute to a lack of ECs for me, b/c I do work weekends (7 hours a day..)</p>
<p>Work experience can help in varying degrees (depending on the college).</p>
<p>b<em>S</em> - I'm in a similiar situation and I wrote a letter to the regional rep for my reach school (UPenn) explaining it and the typical EC's I've given up in order to maintain a job so I could contribute to my parochial high school tuiton.</p>
<p>Eckie - Yea, I wrote to Maryland (CP) about it and the problems that had led towards my families finaincial problems (unemployment, and eviction is all I will say). Also, it does prove I can manage time well, for as holding 2 jobs, I have 3 APS, and honors calc, and am still managing a 3.71, while last year, dealing with the aftemath of before-mentioned problems, but had no part time job, I was in a slump of 2.85.</p>