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@parvat98
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 • 2 years ago •
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PVSA (President's Volunteer Service Award) on College Applications
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I was wondering how significant is PVSA on college applications and whether getting this award would help categorize the extracurricular activity at a higher tier (for example a tier 1 or 2 vs tier 3 or 4)?

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@Liltrooper
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 • 2 years ago[edited]

Hi @parvat98

These are good awards to put down on your common app, but not super impressive awards for college admissions to say Top 50 schools. I think it depends on your award level. Bronze - Tier 4, Silver -Tier 3, and Gold either a 2 or 3 depending on what your impact actually was. Definitely not a tier 1 activity.

And to clarify things, you do not get some numerical bump for getting this certificate along with your EC activity associated with the award. So if you volunteered as a Board member on your City Council for 2 years and 200 hours, it still going to be a Tier 2.

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[🎤 AUTHOR]@parvat982 years ago

Thank you for your response and the clarification.

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