<p>In the Common App section on ECs etc. do you need to say how many hours you do stuff for and how many weeks a year? I really haven't got a clue..</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that it is required. That section is what tells the admissions officers what your passions are and how dedicated you are to those passions.</p>
<p>they look at that very closely...it tells a lot about how dedicated you are to your EC's.</p>
<p>For a lot of students, the common application space for ECs isn't enough. You can list your main ECs on the common application chart; just write, "See attached chart" on the common application and you can include a more detailed chart that better describes what your role in a certain EC was.</p>
<p>you can list EC's outside of school in the EC box right?</p>
<p>Of course! Any activity that is something that you were really involved in counts. Summer experiences, travel, etc. They all count!</p>
<p>there is a special, different space on the common app for Summer experiences...separate from the regular EC area.</p>
<p>xjayz - you're involved in admissions, would you mind doing me a huge favour and asking someone if you need to write how many hours a week you do and how many weeks a year you do? I think it's really rather pointless trying to calculate that kind of thing.. I mean for instance, I put down a few societies I run.. how am I supposed to work out the amount of time I spend outside of the society preparing letters, sending them off, thinking of who to invite, talking to people, having dinner with the speakers, listening to the actual talks, etc. etc. etc. </p>
<p>And I mean, societies at my school might function differently to societies at other schools, because there are fricking so many here that often you can't organize meetings every week, in which case my total time spent would look quite unimpressive, and yet it might be the total amount of time I could have spent on it.</p>
<p>Also, certain activities will take up less time than others, even if I enjoy them more.. and so when I say I do them for less hours a week, they might think I'm lying about how interested I am in them (because they tell you to rank them according to interest).</p>
<p>Also other activities can't really be measured at all... for instance hobbies..</p>
<p>The Ace is Back: saxfreq might be able to answer that question as well. If my memory serves me correctly, the common application does ask you to write the time commitment for your ECs. I would write it, just because it does look suspect if you don't.</p>