<p>If you totaled up all the hours of extracurricular activities you've done during your four years of high school (community service, sports, internships, whatever you listed), how many hours would you have? (especially those trying to get into a top school). Is it in the hundreds? thousands? At what point does it become suspicious?</p>
<p>Id say mine would be over 1 thousand hours</p>
<p>Like... umm... 100-ish?</p>
<p>I don't consider a lot of what I do (running raffles, "canning" for Drama) community service, but I probably could.</p>
<p>probably in the 4000 range.</p>
<p>jk. I did the math and it actually totaled out to be around 2215 hours. This includes sports, community service and clubs I am involved in.</p>
<p>Using Common App activities, mine came out to be 3440 (including volunteer activities), I should add private tutoring others.. but too lazy =)</p>
<p>WOw now I think about it... that's a lot...</p>
<p>wow thats a lot.</p>
<p>oops, that hours include projected hours for rest of the senior year lol.</p>
<p>Doing the math, probably in the mid 3,000's. about 70% of that from my major activity, 25% from my (summer) job, 5% other (e.g. minor clubs, volunteer work, etc.). Although I'm probably underestimating the "other." All assuming nothing major happens between now and freshman orientation.</p>
<p>I'm guessing 4000+, most of it from Drama club. I'm pretty sure that I've spent over 3000 hours in rehearsals.</p>
<p>Um. I have absolutely no idea, but I'd estimate it to be about 7000. I'd say I do maybe 6 hours/day (I do a lot), 7 days a week, 42 weeks/year, 4 years. If there are any days during that time that I didn't do a full 6 hours, I think I make up for it over summers. That includes hours projected for the next few months, too, though. To break down that 7000 number:</p>
<p>2000 from mentoring
2000 from Drama Club
250 from Math/Science Clubs
250 from FBLA
250 from History Club/Academic Decathlon
750 from Hebrew School (attended as student for two years, taught Hebrew for next two) and Temple Youth Group
500 from fencing
1000 miscellaneous (Girl Scouts, helping out with town plays/random organizations and school functions that need someone to run sound or make tickets, tutoring, NHS, FHS, other stuff I'm too lazy to tally up)</p>
<p>Jeez... I didn't realize how little of a life I've had in HS until I calculated that. I am SO getting a life next semester.</p>
<p>lioninwinter, your Drama Club must be intense, because I've done 10 shows (well, my tenth is on now), and I've got about 1000 from that.</p>
<p>Let's see: 10 shows, 20-40 rehearsals per show (2-4 rehearsals per week for 12 weeks), 3-4 hours per rehearsal = 1050, averaged out. Plus about 200-300 because of set buildings, fundraisers, talent show, etc. 3000 hours is a lot more than you think. >_></p>
<p>I think I've got about 2000-2250 from Drama Club, Ballroom Dance (which only started this year), and work. =/</p>
<p>zero! :]]]]</p>
<p>Zamzam, my Drama Club rehearses from 3-6, Monday through Friday, and from 1-5 on Sunday for 3 months before a show, plus rehearsals from 3-10 Monday through Friday and 1-11 Sunday during the week before the show. That's 250 hours/show. I've done 8 shows (with the Drama Club, plus some in town), which gives me 2000 hours. Maybe lioninwinter's done 12 shows. You never know.</p>
<p>That... seems like an absurd waste of time. You can't rehearse everyone every day for months. Eventually, you'll have scenes with only two or three people (and those scenes will have to be done over and over and over again), and most people will end up sitting there doing homework. It just seems so inefficient. And it's not like my Drama Club produces shlock: we sold out 4 out of 6 shows (with a 950-odd-seat auditorium, and selling around 600-700 tickets the first two nights) of our last musical, and our production of Les Mis was deemed professional-quality (granted, they had an extra month due to licensing and scheduling conflicts, but with the amount of singing, that's pretty negligible).</p>
<p>Your shows must be incredible if you put so much effort into them.</p>
<p>100........i'm a junior. i feel inadequete</p>
<p>Lol, well not the entire cast has to be present at every rehearsal. Crew folks, especially tech crew (since we help build/paint set, AND have one of the hardest jobs otherwise), does end up being there just about every day, though.</p>
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<p>How are you like president of 7 clubs (your chance me thread still remains in my head) and only have 100 hours of ECs.....?!</p>