<p>Hi – My daughter is adamant about writing about her visits to help with Katrina clean-up. She spent her Sophomore and Junior spring breaks working in Biloxi.</p>
<p>Do you think adcoms are tired of reading about this? </p>
<p>This really was my daughter’s wake-up call to injustice, community, empowerment, leadership, etc.</p>
<p>What does everyone think?</p>
<p>I think she can pull it off if she is an excellent writer. However, Katrina clean-up efforts aren’t entirely original…most people know at least one person who has gone with a youth group, church group, etc. to Louisiana or Mississippi.<br>
If she has an original take on the subject, she should be fine. But if the essay becomes an “I didn’t realize how I took my home for granted” essay, then it might be less fresh.</p>
<p>Community service trips are always sort of fatigued.</p>
<p>But your daughter went twice. So it obviously was important to her. Did she do any fundraising as a result of her experience? Become more involved with the efforts to restore the damaged Gulf Coast?</p>
<p>As long as her interest/passion for her experience goes BEYOND the great middle class awakening, then she should be OK.</p>