ohkay. i sent my application long time ago, without much thoughts on “weekly hours” for activities.
i simply and honestly asked myself, “how many hours am i spending in (blah) club?”
however now i looked it up again, and a sum of hours are so great. a reason, i found, is during a drama production period(4-5 months), hours sours. and etc.
how do you guys deal with this?
i think if college adcom simply add numbers, they will go like “What the…”.
Do they actually think like… “oh… it’s drama activity, and this hours are for the production… blabhlhablah.”??
<p>i donno, but if i were an admission officer, and I saw someone doing like 50+ hours of ECs with more than five ap/ib classes while maintaining a 4.0 UW, I'd be a little suspicious. There would be three possibilities:</p>
<p>1)the guy's a genius
2)the guy's a cheat
3)the guy goes without sleep...literaly</p>
<p>no, i wouldnt send in a letter. it would just raise eyebrows and make the adcom, who may have initially never considered it, doubt your legitimacy.</p>
<p>Drama requires an enormous time commitment, and I think the adcoms know it. Averaging over 50 hours a week for 4-5 months would be certainly be excessive, but 15 hours per week average might not be if you held a lead or were a production assistant.</p>
<p>Theatre production has a lot of down time, which is when students get their homework done. The time still counts as activity hours. If you put down a reasonably accurate estimate of your work, stand by it and don't worry.</p>
<p>i was an small-part actor as well as a head scenic techie(designing/painting the set, etc). and i put 40 hours for drama. i had no Saturday, and Sunday during the production -_-
(2PM-6~8PM weekdays, god-knows-how-long during weekend) after i've gone thru this production, i can't believe i actually did that. oh.. well i blew my AP US History exam. duh..</p>
<p>well another thing is a time between the productions(or after the production).. when there isnt much time consumming things going on (but still stay after school until 6, because going home so early just seems ACKWARD -_-).. </p>
<p>it's like during a production - so much hours
after a production - a little.</p>
<p>drama dorks, what did you put for weekly hours?</p>