How Community Service Affects Getting Into College
By: Cassie Whitt and Jon Bellomy
Thursday March 6, 2008 Jon Bellomy and Jon Barth took a trip to the Colorado School of Mines to interview Bruce Goetz . They wanted to find how colleges not only look at grades and extracurricular activities, but how Community Service plays a roll in applying into higher level schools such as universities and state colleges. They found out that CSM, among other engineering schools, does not look at extracurricular activities and community service as much as grades. For scholarships community service is a helpful aid. For example, if Jon Bellomy and Jon Barth were applying for the same position, and Jon Bellomy had a history of volunteering at and various community service locations and Jon Barth had no community service history at all the administrative office would be more likely to choose Jon Bellomy for the position over Jon Barth. Universities and state colleges, on the other hand, look at everything, such as grades, community service, and extracurricular activities. They rely on grades just as much as extracurricular activities and community service. Without any community service history or extracurricular activities it is highly unlikely that the administrative office will except and incoming student. In the real world, community service not only helps people get further in life it also helps those who need it most. So if you are interested in volunteering and getting community service hour in, then here are some good places to try, The IMHS which is a humane society located in Pine next to the Woodside Inn, the Thrift Store in Conifer located above the Movie Gallery, the Retirement Center in Evergreen and The Mountain Resource Center. All you have to do is go and let them know you want to be a volunteer and they will hand you and application. So go out and get some community service hours in and make a difference.
