College applicants everywhere want to know, does volunteer matter for college admissions? The answer is yes. But it isn’t about the number of hours or even the place where you volunteer. Rather, it’s about how dedicated you are to helping those whom you serve, as well as the impact you make in that volunteer position. It’s not so much what you do or where you do it. Instead, the college admissions officers care about how well you do something, and whether it had a lasting effect on the organization you served.