| I think volunteer work is a little bit different than other ECs. While simply saying that you had X volunteer hours may grab the attention of adcoms, any person with some spare time can do insincere community service just to make themselves look good on paper. You'd really have to stress the importance and passion you have for doing community service as a means in itself to truly impress adcoms.
And zogoto, if 500 hours spent researching science stuff isn't an EC, I don't know what is.
eternity_hope2005, I really liked that post. I'm currently struggling to write the first drafts of my college essays (I'm a rising senior), and hopefully this post will point me in the right direction. |