I had lots of volunteer experience. I volunteered for about 4 years at a therapeutic riding center, at the emergency department at our local hospital, and Volunteers in Medicine for 6 months. I'd highly recommend you start volunteer in places like that. Also, I believe my GPA was a 3.7 or 3.8 or so. Not 4.0 like some! I have a lot of traveling experience unlike many so I wrote about that in my essay. If you have any other questions, just ask! So far I love Ashland and am really glad I am going to be going to school here.