Community Service at Colleges

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<p>Right now I’m looking at schools, and I think an important thing a lot of people don’t mention is the availability/ prevalence of community service opportunities at different colleges. I know almost every school has opportunities but some schools are really outstanding. For example, </p>

<p>“Princeton University’s creation of the “Bridge Year” to start in the fall of 2009 which offers 100 incoming freshman the option of taking a Princeton-financed full year of service work abroad before commencing their four years of academic study at Princeton” (I think this sounds amaaazing)</p>

<p>Yale has a very long-running and popular community service group with loads of opportunities</p>

<p>Brown has a program where you can volunteer for a year and earn some money for your tuition, as well as a very strong volunteering culture in general (university urges you to work for a non-profit).</p>

<p>Columbia has a lot of access to NYC and tutors a lot of underprivileged kids there.</p>

<p>Anyway, I really enjoy these kinds of volunteer opportunities (and I’m thinking about a gap year) so I would really like to go to a university where this attitude is present. Anyone know of any more or of any programs as such?</p>

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<p>Why don’t you do something like Peace Corps or AmeriCorps after graduation? I wouldn’t choose a school based on volunteer activities because short-term volunteer activities can be found at every school while long-term public service programs would love to take people who’re willing to donate their time.</p>

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<p>Amherst College has the Center for Community Engagement that offers fellowships for involvement in service during the academic year and through the Citizen Summer program. <a href=“https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/cce[/url]”>https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/cce&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>the princeton review has a list of “colleges with a conscience,” schools that have an active culture of community service
[Test</a> Prep: GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, SAT, ACT, and More | The Princeton Review](<a href=“College Search | Find Colleges | The Princeton Review”>College Search | Find Colleges | The Princeton Review)</p>

<p>also, [Connecticut</a> College : Holleran Center Home](<a href=“http://holleran.conncoll.edu/]Connecticut”>http://holleran.conncoll.edu/)</p>

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<p>BC is huge on service. seems like everyone does at least one service/immersion trip while theyre here. and clubs like 4Boston are huge, where you volunteer at any one of over 50 placements in the boston area for 10 hours a week. and theres even a combined philosophy and theology class with a service component</p>

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<p>If you are female, Smith College has strong community service values and orientation. Smith’s acceptance rate to the highly selective Teach for America program is consistently more than twice the national average.</p>