<p>Is it ok to round the weeks/year and hours/week? For example, I put 30 weeks for my volunteering thing. Do I need to go find out exatly how many weeks it really was? I have been doing this for all my activities so most of them are nice rounded numbers like 15, 20, and 30. THere are a few that are 12, 27, and 16, if that helps.</p>
<p>I doubt you’ve recorded the exact hours per week and weeks per year that you’ve participated in any given activity unless it’s some lab work or a job/internship, rounding the numbers is fine.</p>
<p>Rounding is expected but exagerrating is taboo.</p>
<p>As an example, if you play varsity football, you might have five weeks of preseason practice (16 hours/week), ten weeks of actual season (22 hours/week) and twenty weeks of off-season lifting and conditioning (8 hours/week). You can either list these as three separate activities (unless you already have nine other EC) or you can simply state that you participate for 35 weeks per year with an average of about 14 hours per week with a maximum of 22 hours during the season. I would discourage you from trying to use 35 weeks at 22 hours every week.</p>
<p>I would agree w/ rlmdad. The only issue is that the CA only lets you put in (and you must put it in, or it says you are not done) the number of hrs/week and wks /year. The only way you can modify this (ie “x” hrs/wk during these months and “y” hrs/wk during these other months…) is to explain that in the small space they give after you give the name of the activity. However, that space is tiny–and if you put too many characters, it just cuts you off. We have struggled with that because two of my sons clubs meet for 1 hour/month, but you can’t put that in–and it won’t allow 0.25 hrs/wk (the program does not allow you to type this in–it says you must put between 1 and 133 (I think 133 was the number) hrs/wk. So to be honest, you have to explain, but the space is so tiny that the explanation takes up most of the characters and then you can’t describe the activity! Our solution was to submit a succinct CV (under “Addtl Info” ).</p>