My ECs sum up to more than 70 per week. I heard somewhere its suspicious if the number gets higher than 50. However in reality I don’t do them at the same time.
It is as follows, with some of them not specific so I don’t reveal too much about myself.
List:
Marching Band (18 hrs / week - 16 weeks)
Activity (8 hrs / week - 32 weeks)
Sport (12 hrs / week - 10 weeks)
music ensemble 1 (3 hrs / week - 20 weeks)
music ensemble 2 (2 hrs / week - 40 weeks)
music ensemble 3 (2 hrs / week - 40 weeks)
club president #1 (3 hrs / week - 32 weeks)
club president #2 (3 hrs / week - 32 weeks)
summer program (10 hrs / week - 3 weeks)
internship (25 hrs / week - 6 weeks)
Basically I’m worried it will look like too much although its true.
The bottom two are summer stuff when nothing goes on. The two club president positions just have me lead a weekly 1 hr meeting during lunch and plan for a while during the weekend.
so my big commitments are marching during the fall, sport during the spring, the second 8hr activity in fall but picks up during spring, and a weekly rehearsal during spring for music group #1.
Is this fairly standard for top schools, and will no res flags be raised?
It’s suspicious if it’s 70 fours on any given week. But it sounds like there is no week that comes close to that, so you’re fine
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When we totaled up my kid’s ECs, we realized that all through high school, kid spent at least 40 hrs/week on music, outside of school hours, during the school year. Who knew that ECs were a full-time job, on top of school? No wonder when the pandemic hit, and schools just closed for a couple of weeks, all the kid did was SLEEP.
First of all, make sure that the summer programs are noted as being such. They don’t count as in-school ECs for during the year.
Look at your hours carefully. If the activities really do take that many hours during those weeks, sure. But right now, it does look a bit “puffy”. Is the club meeting really an hour? Most schools don’t even have an hour for lunch. Do you really spend 2 hrs/week for each club, planning? Do you really spend 18 hrs/wk on the other activities while you’re also doing 18 hrs/wk of marching band? If you do, okay, but if it’s slightly padded, make sure you’re not inflating the hours slightly.
On the other hand, when you say, “I do marching band in the fall, play a spring sport, lead 2 clubs, play in 3 music ensembles, and do another activity one day/week much of the school year”, it sounds very, very busy, but possible.
and AOs will know this from weeks per year right
i think you’re right about clubs i could drop them to two, three is probably the most but not really every week.
and the 8hr per week activity is FRC robotics, i think that might be on the higher side, as some weeks i’m there for more than 8 but in general i think i could drop to 6 or 7 to reflect the average. i’m able to do this and marching at the same time because the main time for marching is wednesday nights, friday nights for football games, and very long saturdays for competition/rehearsal. FRC is some weekday nights + sunday. so not really affecting my academics a huge amount
for the 3 music ensembles, one of them just meets for 3 hours per week in after school rehearsal only during the spring.
the other 2 are jazz band and wind band, which are classes during school, but the time is for practice, concerts, and competitions. are jazz and wind band ECs or no?