question on the columbia app

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>it says: Limiting yourself to the space provided, please list (in descending order of importance to you) the activities to which you have given your time WITHIN your school setting. Please refrain from submitting additional information.
and then gives 6 slots (with activity/years/position of leadership for each)</p>

<p>how then are we supposed to describe hours/effort for each club? like for nhs, my school gets really into it and is really exclusive and makes us put in 40 hours of tutoring and some volunteer/comm. service but i know some other schools just blow it off and everyone who applies gets in..</p>

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<p>There's no way to differentiate it that I know of, except maybe saying "NHS tutoring/volunteering." Other than that, you could write about it in your essay if you really want to, but hopefully that's not your only EC.</p>

<p>Also please don't write "makes us do tutoring and volunteering." xP</p>

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<p>lol no it's not my only ec. but it's frustrating that people from other schools will have something for leadership for doing nothing when i have to leave that blank and i do more work. def not enough to waste my essay on it though haha</p>