<p>Okay, so for my activities section, I found that most of the activities I do (like science club, math club) only require about 2-3 hours a week time commitment, although it is in these clubs that I have really good leadership positions/big awards (some national). another activity I have, which is a position at the school board, has only two four-hr. meetings per month (so that averages out to two hours a week). Same with science, only four hours a week. However, that's during the year, and during the summer, I am much involved with science and OUTSIDE of the school clubs, I have other science activities/math activities that are completely unrelated to school.
So, although i have only a few hours (about 15) listed on the 5 extracurricular section, as long as I elaborate on my further involvement in a resume, is it okay? Will I look bad compared to people who spend about 20 hours a week on one activity?
any advice/suggestions would be appreciated. i already sent them in my resume.</p>
<p>^^It will be fine. Stop fretting.</p>
<p>…
dude it is fine.</p>
<p>I hope u guys are right…how many hours you spend on an activity shouldn’t determine how passionate you are about it…at least that’s what I think</p>
<p>I think hours is important but there are other factors too.</p>
<ol>
<li>how much you accomplished in it (awards from it?)</li>
<li>how many years u did it</li>
<li>How many weeks you do it (1hr/week for 40 weeks > 15hr/week for 2 weeks)</li>
<li>Your role in it. (Vice pres? pres? officer?)</li>
</ol>
<p>If you really are passionate about it, write about it more in the additional info part!
Hell write about it on your essays too!</p>
<p>GL to all you EA out there :)</p>
<p>^yeah, I agree, that’s what I meant. It’s just that for stuff like math team, asides from attending that weekly lunch meeting and the monthly contest, there’s not much physical time you actually spend doing it (3 hours a week at most). Hopefully, the fact that I’m president, have been doing it all four years, won a lot of stuff w/ it, will cancel that out. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, I have many acquaintances who are putting down the same extracurriculars with many many more hours a week on an extracurricular than they actually did, which is kind of base. Hopefully, colleges like MIT will be able to see through stuff like that. </p>
<p>what do you guys think?</p>
<p>I agree with everyone else.
2 of the activities I listed I only do 2-3 hrs per week.
the other 3 are my primary activities and so i average about 8-10 hrs per week but that’s spread out. like my school newspaper I do usually 2hrs per week for 3 weeks each month and then 30+ hrs for one week each month when I have to do the layout and put the whole thing together so I wrote I did about 8hrs a week.
don’t worry too much about the hours just list the ones you like best :)</p>
<p>^yeah, that’s what I did. There were some activities I spent a lot of time on (like academic team) but I didn’t think it was too important ( so i ended up listing on the additional info section), since I feel that although I spent less time on the others, they were more important to me.
hopefully the adcoms understand…</p>