we’ve got the same garbage going on at our school, it is a plot to get people used to working for nothing
Parents don’t let your sons and daughters go into debt to go to college, please. And let’s see, this one is on the hamster wheel running so hard she doesn’t really have time to do any thinking, does she? Perfect!! Government can get on with its fascist agenda and no one will notice!
BTDT. Sure, there’s a lot that is ridiculous in trying to graduate and get into a good college but she has to play the game. The number of hours sounds daunting but it’s fairly easy to accomplish. Mine had way over 300 hours without going out of their way. Many of her normal school activities and clubs will have volunteer projects so those count. Our National Honor Society required X hours so those hours can be counted for college volunteer hours. Same with 4H, scouting, church, rock club or whatever outside of school organization volunteering your daughter is involved with. Same with community events that the whole family is helping with like the VFD garage sales and fish fries or park clean up days. Mine would enter baking contests during community festivals and then donate the boatload of goodies to the nursing home afterward. It all adds up quickly. Mine volunteered each year at the library’s little kid summer reading program. Their “self motivated” and “self organized” (colleges like those terms, sigh) projects included an annual drive for the animal shelter. They’d put up signs around the neighborhood, have drop off containers at the curb and went door to door for a couple weekends for material items on the shelter’s wish list. Being an annual event, the neighbors began to expect it which was an easy win-win for all and the shelter would get a truck load of supplies every year.
On the flip side, her good will toward others may come back to her in the form of scholarships. Scholarship organizations like to see volunteer hours, too. There are scholarships out there specifically looking at where your daughter volunteered. Sometimes there’s a scholarship looking for students who helped their local animal shelter (or wherever) so she applies and they give her a nice scholarship and as a bonus they also write a check to the shelter so everyone wins.
They would be even more respectable had they taught you the difference between "then" and "than".
I have two kids in college. One bought into the crap that her counselors told her. The other figured she would go to community college for two years, and then transfer.
Both got into their first choice colleges. Both are doing fine. The community college daughter is in a fine private school now—she worked her butt off and is practically debt free. The other....well, she is in a great school for her major. But she will have more debt than she should.
Volunteerism really isn’t if the only reason you are doing it is for self gain.
Our daughter in law had the same deal to get into med school.
I guess they were making sure she’d be willing to work for free under Obammycare before letting her in the club.