Article from Nancy Lublin in the Huffington Post highlights new DoSomething.org survey, which finds that college admissions officers care about more than GPA and SAT scores-- they are also looking for “good citizens.”

An excerpt:

“Over 1 million high school seniors spent Thanksgiving writing college application essays. It is expected that 1.5 million kids will apply to U.S. Colleges and Universities this year.

The competition is tougher than ever. More kids are applying for fewer spots.

Thanks to places like U.S. News and World Report and other investigations, we all know the average SAT score needed to get into Harvard is a 2380 and the Fall 2010 acceptance rate at Brown was 9 percent. But for years we've also known something else: schools want "good citizen" candidates. Huh?”

Read the full article.