<p>Here is what I had:</p>
<ol>
<li>14hw/46 wy -year</li>
<li>7hw/ 35 wy - school</li>
<li>10 hw/50wy -year</li>
<li>6hw/ 40 wy -school</li>
<li>5hw/ 33wy -school</li>
<li>9hw/ 37wy -school</li>
<li>11 hw/ 40wy -school/break</li>
<li>28hw/10wy - break</li>
</ol>
<p>So I added it all up and you’re doing 62 hours of ECs throughout the school week (did not include there 28hw/10wy). And assuming your school is like most schools and lasts for 7 hours, 5 days a week, you’re spending 97 hours a week doing school and ECs.
Since there are 168 hours in a week, you only have 71 hours left to have “free” time and sleep. Assuming you get only 5 hours of sleep a night, you now have 36 hours left to do what you need to do. Let’s divide that by 7 and you now have 5 hours a day of free time every week.</p>
<p>However, that’s factoring in the weekends. And since most of these are school activities, I’m now going to assume they only take place Monday-Friday. So now you have 97 hours of doing stuff 5 days a week with only 120 hours to spare. Therefore, by my calculations you only are getting 4 and a half hours of sleep a night without eating dinner or breakfast or calculating in travel time to and from school or even doing homework and study.</p>
<p>Therefore, yep! Way too much. It would look a little weird to me if I was an adcom that you managed to not only do 7 ECs a week during school, but also managed to study and attend school and put that much time into your ECs.</p>
<p>So just out of curiosity (and feel free to PM me the answer), did you exaggerate? If not, definitely tell me how you managed to manage your time so well.</p>
<p>Hours for these things are really hard to quantify. There could have been a week where you did a ton and another where you did very little. The trick is to average it. </p>