Community service hours for college

[momofkhm]

I was having dinner the other night with 2 moms who have kids in college - homeschooled kids. One mom said her oldest (now in grad school) it wasn't that important. But for the next, 2 or 3 years later, it was very important. Then the other mom who has a sophomore, she said it was very, very important to have those hours. She even said they needed at least 100 hours. I asked and was told it's all through high school, not 100 hours their senior year. I direct our VBS at church and I've signed several forms over the years for kids needing 20 hours per school year just to graduate.

So that's just FYI. Now a question: My dd has 15 hours from VBS this past summer. She is a high school freshman. Do those hours count as 8th grade hours or high school hours? If she's going to need them, I'll track them! If it matters, VBS was June and we started school in July.

[Gwen in VA]

Some college application forms ask the student to list what he did each summer. Since there were four blanks, we decided that summer of freshman year was the summer BEFORE freshman year...and so forth.

Certainly my kids have done activities the summer before freshman year that I wanted listed!

[Julie in MN]

Do those hours count as 8th grade hours or high school hours?

I think you count them towards the upcoming school year. My thinking is that if she did something "after 12th grade," it wouldn't count because she had already graduated, so "before 12th grade" would have to count for 12th grade -- and on down the line.

Julie

[coopers5]

Are you asking about this in relation to working on college admissions?

Or, I couldn't tell, but were you somehow saying that these moms said it mattered once they were IN college?.....

Thanks!
JC

[momofkhm]

Are you asking about this in relation to working on college admissions?

Or, I couldn't tell, but were you somehow saying that these moms said it mattered once they were IN college?.....

Thanks!
JC

For college admissions the volunteer hours were important. I'm often not clear, especially when I'm writing things. Sorry about that!

[LizzyBee]

My oldest is in a public charter school. Her school counts this summer's volunteer hours to the current school year (or upcoming school year for those on a traditional schedule; she started back July 18).

[AnitaMcC]

I don't know about community service hours. My niece and nephew went to college (one graduated this past May) and they didn't have much in service hours. It just wasn't possible for us to deal with when they were in high school. And their lack of service hours weren't an issue at all. Also service hours are not a requirement for graduation in our district.

Our twins starting 9th grade will be doing confirmation classes and civil air patrol so they will get service hours from these activities.

[Kim in Appalachia]

We are enrolled in an Umbrella school, and I think it works that anything after June 1st counts for the next school year. They end their year at the end of May. If my dd did anything over the summer it would count for the next year. Does that make sense?