How important is volunteering?

Northstarmom
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:09:54 +0000

“Northstarmom, I don’t care about most colleges. I only care about the really good ones where they really look at ec’s because everyone has stellar grades and scores.”

At places like HPYS, Amherst, etc. most applicants and most of their students and probably most of their alum volunteer: Not to get brownie points for admission, but because they want to contribute to society and their community. They tend to be people who like to give back. That’s why, for instance, at Harvard, the service organization Phillips Brooks House has dozens of student-organized volunteer projects, and probably most students on that campus do some kind of service.

All of the alum whom I know do some kind of community service. It’s typical that students and alum of such colleges believe that to whom much is given, much is expected.