| It could be an interesting trip for parents and kids with the money who also like to travel and volunteer. It won't impress colleges, however, because colleges know that basically it's a nice opportunity for the wealthy. It's not as if the kid would have earned that trip by doing anything other than being born into the right family.
Saying this, incidentally, as someone who has paid to volunteer in the Caribbean with my kids. We did it because we wanted to expose them to Caribbean culture (my dad was Jamaican) and we also like to volunteer. We didn't do it, however, to impress colleges or polish kids' resumes. Our experience was disappointing. There was little that we could do in the 2 weeks that we were there. We would have made much more of a difference spending 2 weeks volunteering at home. |