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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When teens go on "missions" or "service trips" to developing countries.    No one is impressed by those.[/quote]

Why is this and what are these? [/quote]

They're service learning trips sponsored by various Christian organizations.  You pay some money and your kid visits and country (or sometimes another state) and does some volunteer work and gets some cultural exposure.  They are frequently a week or so. It's pay to play.  Lots of kids who go on them will then write a generally terrible application essay about "what I learned on my mission trip."  The essay usually shows that 1) the student was extremely privileged and sheltered before the trip and 2) hasn't learned a thing about their own privilege despite going on the trip.  That type of essay isn't going to help with admissions. It also may tweak biases against white, UMC devout Christians.   I wouldn't list the activity and I wouldn't have my kid write a mission trip essay.  [/quote]

Spoken from the cheap seats. My DC did a service trip through school not a church, but beyond the two week mission trip, it involved fundraising for months before, weekly physical fitness training, and monthly treks staying in field tents in preparation for 40 to 80km hikes on the mission itself. It was a rewarding year long experience. DC wrote about something else in essays but def listed it In extracurriculars[/quote]

And...? Did they get in anywhere notable? How did they fare with their reaches?[/quote]

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