Too Late for Community Service?

[Guest]

I know schools look for candidates to have community service in their backgrounds. I recently started being a homework coach, where I help inner city 5th graders with their homework for 90 min per week. I felt this would be a good choice by showing a child the value of an education, since I am pursuing an MBA. Since I am applying for fall of 2009, will the schools look at this as just trying to pad my application? Is 90min a week enough time or are they looking for more?

Thank you

[MBAApply]

They probably will see it as resume padding, but then again something is better than nothing.

What adcoms really value is achievement, not just participation. Anyone can participate; fewer can put in the time, effort and sacrifice to achieve.

Alex Chu
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http://mbaapply.blogspot.com