Exaggerating for extracurriculars?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>So here's the situation: I'm co-president of a club, and we spend about an hour a week for meetings and events. That's what I put in the activity section of Common App. The problem is, the other co-president decided to put in 2 hours per week because he doesn't have many other extracurriculars. </p>

<p>I tried to convince him to change it, and it didn't go well. We're applying to some of the same schools, and I'm afraid that if I don't exaggerate my participation in the club like he did, it'll seem as though I laid back while he did all of the work. </p>

<p>My question, essentially, is two-fold: what would you do in a situation like this, and how many of you have felt pressured to (or have actually decided to) exaggerate in the extracurricular section because others are doing the same?</p>

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<p>It’s not going to have any effect on whether or not he gets into any college. Colleges know people exaggerate their hours. They’re not going to put a lot of weight into anything so easy to falsify. One hour, two hours, it’s just a school club either way, and everyone has twenty million clubs on their resume.</p>

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<p>I’ve probably exaggerated some of my hours unintentionally because I never kept track of them. And some of my ECs didn’t involve the same amount of hours every week, so I tried to figure out some kind of average. And it makes no difference either way.</p>