<p>So I'm filling out the application and putting down conservative numbers for hours/week.</p>
<p>My 7 EC's: 10+16+6+4+5+3+6
My job: 10
Sum=60</p>
<p>The total for me comes out to 60 hours/week spent on ECs and my job. Does that seem unrealistic? It seems like a ridiculous amount.</p>
<p>What does your sum come out to?</p>
<p>8 + 10 + 12 + 4 + 10 + 2 + 8 (for EC) + 10 for job.</p>
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<li>Also seems a bit unrealistic. It's tough to be accurate with this kind of stuff. But I don't know what's low and what's ridiculous.</li>
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<p>so you do an average of 7 hours of ECs a day....that is not believable</p>
<p>and 6 hours of EC a day, after school? uhhuh</p>
<p>You're forgetting weekends. I'm basically going from 9 AM to 11 PM on Saturday/Sunday. Also, I'm counting lunch hour meetings (I am basically never in the cafeteria). The number is still too high though, I realize that. It's just that I'm actually trying to keep my figures low.</p>
<p>Without a job, I put in about 20 hours/week for ECs (and I have about 5).</p>
<p>OK, so I adjusted my figures:</p>
<p>EC's : 8+15+5+3+4+2+5
Job: 8</p>
<p>New sum = 50</p>
<p>What's generally considered a reasonable sum? Anyone know?</p>
<p>be realistic...50 hours might be close if you are playing a sport AND involved in other EC's..but 50 hours just isn't realistic. That's like having a full time job with 10 hours of overtime plus being a full time student!</p>
<p>I think i'd have about 40 hrs</p>
<p>Jeez, that makes me seem pretty pathetic. Mine comes out to 28 max during the most demanding period of my high school life, except for 42 during the summers. </p>
<p>However, the 28 isn't really all that accurate, because one of my ECs is like 10hr/week for 2 months of the year and only 1 hr/week for the rest of the year, so I went for a conservative average of 4hr.</p>
<p>what people must not seem to understand is that they are asking for ballpark averages, that means not that youre doint tha tnumber every week but that your doing that much on average for example you could do 10 one week and 30 another weeek or 0 oen week and 40 another!</p>
<p>for me it is</p>
<p>internship-10 hours
Clubs-4 hours
reserahc-5 hours</p>
<p>That isn't believable. That's a 6-day-work week, 10 hours a day (I'm taking away a day, but if I didn't it would be just a little under 10 hours, about 8 and three quarters). That isn't believable actually.</p>
<p>"Another [way to know if applicants are committed to activities] is to ask how many hours students spend on each activity. And in an instance where the numbers seemed high? A gimlet-eyed Cornell officer whipped out a calculator to reveal that the (unsuccessful) applicant claimed to spend 50 hours a week on after-school pursuits."</p>
<p>^ o_O, i think that answers the OP's question....lol</p>
<p>What if I have done 800 Hours of Volunteer/ Service from Grades 8-12 ? I put 8 hrs/ week for 25 weeks for grades 8 -12 .</p>
<p>And my total is 44 hours/week but that is due to the fact that some activities are low week counts. Such as in Summer, etc...</p>
<p>^ Yea, 50 hours is way too high</p>
<p>It isnt a 44 hour/ week / year, it is scattered in different week amounts, does that make a difference?? Or is it just the number that scares people///</p>
<p>During school?</p>
<p>like 5 hours per week or something really low like that.</p>
<p>During summer?</p>
<p>More than 50 hours per week. (including full time job)</p>