PARIS: Harvard is going to be expecting Thanksgiving shelter work. They’ll know I called too late and it will totally impugn my organizational skills.
Paris said earlier that she had already sent her Harvard application in weeks ago, so I’m not sure how Harvard would know what she was doing over Thanksgiving, or how it could make a difference at this point as to whether she gets accepted or not. Paris has always put far too much faith in volunteering as a path to university acceptance.
The Annotated Gilmore Girls 