<p>I understand that Princeton values community service. If an applicant has no volunteer service, is that a definite “no” even if stats are good and ECs are good?</p>
<p>uh…it’s not really hard to do community service…so i thought everyone did community service</p>
<p>hmm I wonder how much they’re “expecting.”
Compared to some people here, I barely have much (250 hours? Maybe less?)</p>
<p>actually. 200 hr. seems to be average in cc</p>
<p>ya, i think they care more about commitment than exact no. ex. if you do 3 hours a week for 4 years, its better than doing it 10hrs a day for a couple of months or something</p>
<p>but if you volunteer like the whole 8 weeks of summer that’s also considered commitment right?</p>
<p>well I would disagree with the assertion: “uh…it’s not really hard to do community service…”</p>
<p>If a person is working full time and attending school there is less time to volunteer than one may have hoped. I really think it depends on the individual. If community service is something you love to do are able to do all the time then I’m sure that looks great. However, I don’t think that Princeton would hold it against you if you were in a situation where volunteering is difficult to fit in. As long as you are passionate. Like, they can tell when you are doing it just to rack up community service hours or if you are doing it because it is something you truly enjoy.</p>
<p>I disagree with the assertion “well I would disagree with the assertion: “uh…it’s not really hard to do community service…””</p>
<p>community service isn’t about the hours. It’s about what you do for the community (obviously) therefore, if you truly don’t have time, you can easily integrate community service w/ what you do every day…you don’t have to log in hours for that…for ex. I work part time, play sports, and go to school. however, instead of playing tennis at school I ask my coach if i can go to a park near by and teach tennis / practice tennis with a daily clinic. AND you can turn your work into community service…these are bad examples but you get the idea…hopefully.</p>
<p>Ya I agree. Real community service is hard to do. The fake stuff is easy. For example, the integration of Rocketry club with a camp for underpriveledged kids. We could have kept our money to ourselves, especially since we need it so badly. Instead we decided to buy 100 dollars worth of rocketry equipment for the children to build and launch. Its really what you do not how long you do it for.</p>
<p>ha guys i think we are saying the same thing regarding ‘it isn’t about the hours and that it is about passion and what you do’ However, I do tend to disagree that community service can be that ‘easily’ integrated. Again, it truly depends on the individual situation. It sounds like both of those situations were great in that you guys were able to work in some community service that you enjoyed. However, some situations are different.</p>
<p>ha don’t really know why im talking about this…lol I actually do quite a bit of community service…just playing the devil’s advocate I suppose!</p>
<p>Lol ya thats the best role to play! </p>
<p>God I hope we all get in! Its driving me crazy. It would be cool to enter Princeton with like 50 friends already.</p>
<p>I think the only things that will get an automatic rejection would be the following:</p>
<ol>
<li>Committed a felony</li>
<li>Not having taking the right tests (3 Subject tests, although they might make a rare rare exception)</li>
<li>Scored less than, uh…1500/2400 combined on SAT or equivalent ACT</li>
<li>Said something horrible in your application like “my parents are making me apply”</li>
</ol>
<p>They’re not going to get rid of you for not showing community service. Besides, some people do community service and don’t bother putting it in their app because they didn’t do 100000 hours.</p>
<p>lol clen, i thought you said they would reject if it was 1500 math+CR, not out of 2400.</p>
<p>I edited it cuz i realized the ambiguity of just “1500”</p>
<p>Do you guys actually write “I have 80,000 hours” or whatever? I was just going to write my community service in the activities chart with 4 hours/week for time, and then 15 hours/week in the space where you write about how you spent your summers, along with work and other things. I don’t even know my total number of hours… is it expected that you write it in that format?</p>
<p>^That’s what I did.
I didn’t state how many hours I had.
I just checked the boxes they provided for hrs/week week/yr</p>
<p>same here~</p>
<p>I have 0 hours. I don’t think that will be the major hurdle that breaks my chances.</p>
<p>Thats what I did</p>