Would you count these as Community service?

Applying to College
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<p>Which of the following would you write count under the total amount of community service hours:</p>

<ul>
<li><p>Revision Club: teach younger students in the year, and help them achieve 2 grades higher than what they are currently are at (e.g. C to A) [240 hours]</p></li>
<li><p>Guitar Club: set up a free club where students can learn guitar for free, instead of having to go to a club, which runs at the same time, which requires you to pay around 300 USD for 3 months of learning [160 hours]</p></li>
<li><p>Business: help create eco-friendly household appliances from glass because there are no mainstream recyclers where I live [500 hours]</p></li>
</ul>

<p>With these added to my community service hours I will have around 1500 hours on my application (these make 900; I have 400 from my summer job and 100 or so from other miscellaneous endeavors). Without these I may only have 500 or 600. </p>

<p>Which of these would you count under your community service hours if not all, and is 1500 a good amount considering I have only done each of them for 2 years?</p>

<p>Thanks! :D</p>

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<p>wow…keep it up!</p>

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<p>Thanks. Would you count all of them under community service?</p>

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<p>I don’t know if the business would be a reasonable example of service. Is it for profit?</p>

<p>And don’t worry about racking up a certain number of hours, your ECs are good and you’ve clearly invested a good amount of time into then.</p>

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<p>Well, we give a certain amount of the profit to charity and keep certain amount for ourselves. We are also kind being environmentally friendly in that we are recycling glass because there are no firms that do that in Hong Kong.</p>

<p>Would those be enough to classify it as Community service?</p>

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<p>Recycling sounds pretty good… youve invested lots of time in all of your activities over a long time (presumably) which looks better than 400 hours in the nick of time to catch the app deadline.</p>