Want to foster care animal for community service. Will it look ok for college?

Question

Ive worked at community kitchen and foodback but dont getting enough hours. I hear foster care of animals will give you about 3 hours a day but dont know if it will look good for college. Thank you.

Answer 1

If you can frame the foster care in an altruistic manner, such as helping the local animal shelter, then it may be good "eyewash" on your application. Your real passion as a volunteer will only happen if you do something you truly believe in. something that you feel is making a difference. then, when you write about it, you can express your feelings in an honest and forthright manner. That will "look good."

Answer 2

Colleges don't care about the number of hours you volunteer. They want to know: why you wanted to volunteer, why you chose the volunteering experiences you did, what you learned from these experiences, how these experiences changed you, etc. You should be able to sincerely and eloquently answer these questions about a volunteering experience, whether that experience is working at a community kitchen or providing foster care for animals (and, by the way, foster care is a VERY big commitment and requires more than three hours of your time a day).