<p>I tweaked mine, now it is 38. And thats even with the 2 summer months etc..</p>
<p>sport- 15 to 30 hour depending on whether ther is a tournament(on weekends and take two days most of the time.
job- about 20 hours
so total is anywhere from 35 to 50 hours</p>
<p>so 50 is realistic to me</p>
<p>I'm so bad at estimating hours and such for all my activities. Sports are the easy ones, but does anyone have any suggestions for how to enter this community service group for the Common App? There ~1, 1.5 hr meetings every other week, but those are mainly to coordinate various projects (~2 per month) that occur in varying weeks and for various amounts of time. I have no idea how many weeks or hours to put down...</p>
<p>Clearly the OP is exaggerating the number of hours he/she spends on extracurriculars a week. If it was a mistake, you should correct it. If it wasn't, then the admissions officer will definitely know. Lets do the math.</p>
<p>168 hours in a week
49 hours of sleep (assuming an average of 7 hours per night)
35 hours of school (7 hours per day for 5 days)</p>
<p>From that, there is only 84 hours a week left. Now if you ever take time to eat, shower, do hw, hang out with friends, or anything else, subtract that from 84. Although I guess it's possible to do 60 hours/week of ECs, I highly doubt it. My advice is stop lying on your college applications.</p>
<p>I forgot to mention that the above statement only applies during the school year. During summer, you could definitely manage some high number like 50-60 hours/week of ECs.</p>
<p>ECs: 3+3+1+1+3+1+1 = 13
I guess that is too low in comparison with everyone else on this forum. I think work & internships should be counted separately from ECs. Just count clubs, sports, music, etc. but not jobs.</p>
<p>Even if one does research, 50-60 hours a week is extreme. I had 15 hours each week for research, 15-20 for a job, and around 10 for my other activities, mostly science olympiad and math fair. That's about 40 hours. Over the summer, research may consume up to 50-60 hours a day, but definately not during the school year.</p>
<p>How do you all do homework and study for tests?</p>
<p>Look at it this way: 40 hours a week is considered a full-time job. If you are doing more than that, how can you also be going to school 7 hours a day, doing homework, and sleeping (a little) ?</p>
<p>Obviously you can do 60 hours/week in the summer, but during the school year, no way.</p>
<p>OTOH--some kids are so good at multitasking, they do homework on the bus, in the car, during lunch bell; eat other meals in haste; sleep less than 7 hours a night during the week...you would be amazed at what they get done.</p>
<p>mommusic,</p>
<p>Some students are very good at multitasking. Even so, are you telling me that they spend more time doing ECs than they do sleeping and going to school (combined)? Sure a small percentage can but the large majority cannot.</p>
<p>Since when was CC the large majority? Haven't we concluded that most students on CC are part of the minority, first to be considering the top 25 schools, second to be strongly competitive for those schools? I'm not saying all students spend that much time doing ECs, but it's technically possible.</p>
<p>All you guys are NUTS! :D I did just 10 hours of ECs and got into a good college. Yay for underachievers <_<</p>
<p>One other point to remember is that perhaps a college isn't interested in 60 hrs of ECs. Maybe they want to be able to say, "Well, this kid looks like he/she has some serious EC's but also has enough time hang out w/ friends, eat dinner w/ family, or do other things that normal ppl do." </p>
<p>Anyway, unless someone can show me a schedule of multiple 60 hr. EC weeks during the school year without showing an accompanying death certificate (COD: Exhaustion), there is no way I will ever believe it. My busiest time during school is Nov-March, and I max out at 38, which pretty much exhausts me.</p>
<p>40 hours during an election time is NOTHING. Last year from the beginning of school through the first week of November, I was averaging about 60 hours a week working on campaigns. I'd be up at 4AM on a Saturday or Sunday to go to an early morning press conference or media event, or to go to New Hampshire, Connecticut, upstate NY, where ever. During the week, I didn't have class until 10ish so I would have breakfast meetings with other people in my political organizations to stuff envelopes. I would study over 5 or 6 hour phone banking marathons (we'd do it late into the night so we could call the west coast as well). </p>
<p>Combined with all the music performance groups I do, 40 hour weeks over those first few months would be a huge slack off week. I easily worked politics 30 hours just on the weekend.</p>
<p>SilverClover: It is admirable that you work that hard, but when do you sleep, eat, shower, or do homework. 30 hours on a weekend? That leaves 16 hours for anything else. Did Professor McGonagall give you a Timeshifter thing?</p>
<p>Sorry, a Time-Turner</p>
<p>^Wow. </p>
<p>Theatre alone averages to like 25 hours a week for me, 30 if you count Saturday practices some weeks. Then you have to add in all this other stuff... NHS, Key Club, this physics thing I do... I am really nervous that adcoms will think I'm making it up, but I really am not. I average like 42 hours a week. Does that seem fake? How do I guarantee I'm serious?</p>
<p>whirly - I'd ask teacher recs. from, for example, your theatre director. There, he or she would be able to talk about your amazing work ethic.</p>
<p>I would... too bad she kind of hates me. And half the plays I do aren't hers; I act and direct in student-produced one-acts a lot of the time.</p>
<p>swim team - 2.5 hrs/6 days = 15 hours (not including meets)
marching band - 2.5 hrs/4 days = 10 hours (not including performances)
science related clubs/teams - 1.5 hr/ 4 days = 6 hours (not including competitions)
other clubs - 1 hr/3 days = 3 hours
research internship - 4 hours/2 days = 8 hours</p>
<p>3 + 4 + 10 + 15 + 8 = 40 hours</p>
<p>I come home very late at night...and then do hw/study.</p>