Volunteering overseas...

MarathonMan88
Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:37:47 +0000

If you’d like a rewarding experience, there are lots of great volunteer programs, but you should not do it to polish your admissions resume. I remember one very forthcoming admissions officer at an info session saying, "if I read one more essay about volunteering in Africa to save the world . . . " Her point wasn’t that they don’t appreciate volunteerism, of course, but that: a) it doesn’t have to be an expensive, overseas program; and b) it’s not exactly a unique experience to volunteer abroad any more.



If a good writer wrote a satire of the college admissions process, I bet it would sell millions and be hilarious.