<p>Hi, I am junior in high school and a volunteer for First Book, which helps low income children and schools recieve free or reduced priced books, and my question is do you think that by being part of this non-profit, and having helped personally 100 low-income schools in the country recieve free or reduced priced books as part of my volunteer work help me get into to colleges such as Columbia, Uchicago and Northwestern? Plus I've also won a national competition for this non-porfit for helping the most schools, since the competition was the three volunteers in the nation who helped the most schools. I'm also African-American so that's also a hook. So do you think this all will help in the admissions process? Thanks!</p>
<p>It’ll help, especially the competition, but remember that for those colleges you’re competing with kids who are academically very talented and have a wide range of impressive extracurricular activities that make Mother Teresa look like Bernie Madoff. You should be proud of your accomplishments though; they are very impressive and your hard work makes your community a better place. :D</p>