I’m a rising senior filling out college applications, and I have reached the point where I have to begin filling out the section for extracurriculars. Under each slot, there is a place to put how much time I spend on the EC a week, but my involvement in each of them fluctuates depending on the week’s schedule. For example, I’m part of a community service club which I may spend anywhere from 0 hours to 7 hours a week on, depending on service opportunities. How do I fill this out while managing to neither sell myself short nor misrepresent my involvement?
Generally the average over the semester/school year is what goes there. There are very few ECs which have regular hours - sports have weeks with games and weeks with only training, clubs which have competitions have weeks when they are just doing stuff and weeks when they are training for the competition, dance troupes and theater have rehearsals, tech week, and the shows.