Community Service Has To Be About More Than Getting Into College

There are thousands of young people every year who donate amazing amounts of time and money to go to poverty-stricken islands and villages to make life better for others. What I continually see, though, are high school students who are convinced that all they have to do to be a hero or to catch the eye of a college is to go overseas. As long as you hear the call for help across the ocean and genuinely answer, rather than go overseas just to say you went, your application will probably glow with the difference. But, additional local community service would show you understand charity begins at home, and that's not a bad lesson to embrace. Read more at: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0328/p09s03-coop.html