<p>The majority of my time (besides my core classes) goes to my school's student-run theater company. Technically, it is a class. We get graded, it's on my transcript, etc. However, there is also an extra period, meaning that when we are working on a show we are at school in the drama building when nobody else is, morning and night. This extra period is also on my transcript. But because it takes so much time (on average 75 plus hours per semester), I'm very tempted to list it as an extracurricular. I also direct underclassmen one acts. This is also a class. But it requires so much time that I feel it belongs in extracurriculars as well. What should I do? Any advice is appreciated, thanks</p>
<p>Listing “Theater” as an extracurricular generically is probably fine, but I doubt that you should list specific items as EC which are already on your transcript. It sounds like Theater is one of your passions, and you will have plenty of opportunity to develop this and show why it is your passion and how involved you are and (and what it has taught you? how it has made you unique?) in one of your essays.</p>
<p>Of course it is. Many students in forensics have speech and/or debate as a class. Most students in band and orchestra have a class period for those. Lots of athletes have a weightlifting period on their transcript. Yearbook and newspaper often meet during a class period. No one would argue that any of theses aren’t ECs. There is absolutely no reason to diminish this as an EC just because you have class time devoted to the same. </p>