[Stupid?]Question about activities on the Common app

<p>Hey guys, I have a question about filling out the activities..may sound stupid but..</p>

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<li><p>If you gained a title in a club in the most recent year, but you have been part of that club for 3 years, do you just bubble all the years and put your position? Or do you need to separately describe when you had this position..?</p></li>
<li><p>Similar problem, for the hours spent: If you spend say an average of 15 hours per month, do you just average it out between the weeks? Or if you spend 1 hour one week..and 6 hours the next..how do you fill it out? Also, if you only spent this amount of time the most recent year, do you just put your recent hours and still bubble in all the years you were a member of something?</p></li>
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<p>Thanks~</p>

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<li><p>I have the same question. But, honestly, there’s no room to go into detail about specifically when you held a position, especially if one wants to actually talk about what they did in that club, so I would say just bubble in all the years and put the position down.</p></li>
<li><p>Average it out between the weeks. I also have the same question for the second half. I think the Common App makes it really difficult to completely express time commitment with their flood of drop-down menus.</p></li>
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<li><p>I just wrote something like “President (12), VP (11)” etc.</p></li>
<li><p>Yeah, average.</p></li>
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<p>^average between weeks or years too?</p>

<p>gonna try bumping here.</p>

<p>you definitely want to indicate the years for your positions. such as: Pres(12), VP (9-11) do bubble in all the years you participated</p>

<p>and as for the hours, there is not a bright line of right and wrong so long as you average it out and try to be consistent. the goal is to give the adcoms a sense of where you spend most of your time. don’t try to impress them with a huge number of hours, just try to show the relative commitment among your activities. the actual hours you state aren’t going to be a critical factor; they are just there to give a sense of your level of involvement. If you have to make a judgment call, you want to lean toward reporting the hours spent in the most recent year that you’ve bubbled in.</p>

<p>Suppose I got an award in Music. I didn’t have any clubs or training classes. So, what do I enter in hours and weeks? Moreover, what do I write if I was honored for Blood-Donation?</p>

<p>^Just put it in the award section?</p>

<p>Instead of starting another thread…I thought I’d ask it here. I finished filling out the activities section on the common app, and when I preview it, all the activities look soo plain. I feel like the one sentence description doesn’t capture what I do at all. Is it just me? Is it common to attach a “resume” just to explain things a bit more??</p>

<p>^I wouldn’t say it’s common, but it’s not uncommon either. There was actually a thread about attaching ‘activity sheets’ not too long ago</p>

<p>Here’s the thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/985861-michele-hernandezs-activities-list-opinions.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/985861-michele-hernandezs-activities-list-opinions.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;