I had put a LOT of hours for my extracurriculars (totaling to over 90 hours/week) but they were all for different time periods/included school hours so it was okay – at first i freaked out and emailed admissions office saying “i wanted to update errors in my “hours/week” reporting on commonapp to accurately reflect what i had done” but then realized this was stupid and sent a follow up saying that “hi this issue is resolved, I realized I had fixed it before submitting”
Does this reflect badly on my part// will it result in a note being put on my file or admissions officers being skeptical of my activities section/me as an applicant? Really paranoid right now
I wouldn’t worry about it. Admissions officers are human and understand the nerves/stress around applications. As long as you were polite and clarified that the issue was resolved, I’m sure it will be forgotten.
I am confused by your question, you did put 90 hours a week in the submitted application, or not?
Do you mean you did, for example, 20 hours a week of volleyball for two months a year (during the season), then when that was over, you joined something else and did that for 5-10 hours a week for a few months of the year - and now you are worrying that AOs will think you did them all year long, which is how you get to 90 hours a week of ECs?
If that is the problem, they will figure it out.
If your application indicates you are doing 90 hours a week all year long on top of school, there might be a red flag.
I read it as the student added up all the hours per week they had put down (without considering that these hours accrued over different time periods) and it totaled 90 hours a week (leading to the first panicked email). Upon review, they realized that because these activities happened during different chunks of time and did not overlap, the hours made sense (and therefore, the original assessment of 90 hours a week was incorrect).
Yes – this is exactly what happened, they add up to 90 hours but i had averaged in things like conferences and tournaments which are a LOT of hours but only for a few weekends/weeks and i indicated different periods of time (ie. X activity – 25 hrs/wk – 36 weeks per year, Y activities 15 hrs/wk — 28 weeks per year) –
i emailed feeling like they would think i was lying/over-exaggerating but there rlly is explanation behind it that I didn’t feel was conveyed ?? do u think they understand inflated hours due to competition hours being so many but so concentrated or do they just expect a report of CONSISTENT hours of participation, because then my application will definitely seem like I was over-exaggerating even though i do have honest intentions-- really really freaking out right now
Is it a red flag if there a lot of overlaps – ie. 20 weeks/ year for most activities and like 36 weeks a year for others /job experiences ??? Like they arent all ALL year but I denominated a specific ## of weeks that is still lengthy because I was trying to estimate – will this still raise a red flag because i feel like it might
Yes I did , but over different periods of time/averaging in tournament times. etc
I on’t think your explanations are helping. I would just let it go, I expect any AO will disregard the information. Is there really a question on your app for exact hours of every game, tournament, activity ever?
And as it appears this happened in the past, there is nothing you can do about it - nothing to be “paranoid” about.
Learn for the future and let it go.