I was fortunate enough to volunteer at Vanney Cook Cancer Center located in McAllen. This Medical Center encourages individuals seeking to volunteer their time to organize their facilities and the copious amount of toys Vanney Cook receives from charitable institutions. The ethical concern I want to analyze in this essay is the mindset I believe the majority of high school seniors tend to have when it comes to volunteering. During the latter part of spring of 2013, I frequently talked with one of my closest friends, Bruno Arjona, about my college aspirations. After long chats about our college applications, Bruno and I quickly realized that our resumes were in a lot of trouble. Bruno and I were heavily involved in high school athletics; consequently, our resumes lacked any high school academic achievements or involvement. Bruno then pitched the idea of volunteering; hoping that a certain amount of hours volunteering would to some degree compensate for our lack of academic involvement. I thought it was a great idea, and during the summer of 2013, we volunteered a total amount of 52 hours. During this volunteering process, I realized that a lot of students my age were volunteering for the wrong reasons (including myself), in order to stand out on a resume. Every high school student in the country has an incentive to volunteer in a charitable organization because it looks really good on a high school resume. I rarely met high school students that started volunteering because of genuine sympathy, and could care less about any recognition on a resume. Then you have a few students that find out that having a well-rounded resume requires some type of volunteering, and ‘volunteer’ solely for that reason. Now, I believe the majority of high school students enter a volunteering program with both intentions: to help people in need, and boost their resumes. I wonder though, if these same students, including myself, were denied any recogniti