28 hrs/week in total extracurriculars- excessive?

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<p>I do not get it. Local high school has made the state finals in a number of sports. I am certain the teams spend no more than 20 hours per week on team related activities. In our district the parents would not tolerate overbearing coaches.</p>

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<p>If you love your sport and the team, you don’t mind the extra time. Ds1, especially, loves the Friday workout because after that one some of them go eat and then go to the football game. I’m not saying the system is good or bad; I just hope that adcoms understand when kids list a lot of hours on an EC some of them aren’t inflating those numbers.</p>

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<p>vicarious, when I did my ECs, it came out to around 40 hours a week. I couldn’t believe it until I realized that I spent around 50-60 hours a week in the school theater for 2/3 of the year (plus a lot more over breaks) plus ran 2 clubs, plus ran a basketball league which ate up most of my weekends. </p>

<p>It kind of just happens. It’s not really excessive, don’t worry. I would have weeks where I would do 70 some odd hours (generally on breaks and long weekends obviously) and I would have weeks where I did less than ten. It doesn’t seem like a lot at the time, only in retrospect. </p>

<p>Oh yeah, and I still managed to have a very nice social life. </p>

<p>I am just trying to show you that she isn’t alone, so it is quite all right! Good luck to your daughter!</p>

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<p>S2 has practice 2:30-6 M-TH, 2:30-10:00 on game days, and film Sat. 8-10. If he needs to leave early, the coaches have been supportive. He is the only four-year IB student on the team and they have learned over the past few years that he doesn’t miss practice unless he is really swamped.</p>

<p>appdad, a couple of the D-IIIs S has visited mentioned the 20/hr./wk rule, which made S feel a lot more confident about being able to juggle a college workload with playing. Even with extra time for weight training (which he’d like to do anyway), he thinks this is workable.</p>

<p>scu – that is a great idea. It really shows the ebb and flow and why one’s commitments in something may be limited.</p>