<p>jets - Sounds realistic (and familiar) to me...now imagine adding another 20 hrs to your schedule. Can you see that as a possibility?</p>
<p>Honestly, I would probably go crazy if I had barely any free time and hardly slept every day. Is 500 different extracurriculars what admissions are looking for? I don't think so. Sure, it's nice to have many activities but then you start looking more like a machine that gets up, goes to all the ECs and then shuts down at the end of the day to recharge its batteries. Enjoy life, spend time with your friends, play some sports, and study.</p>
<p>"jets - Sounds realistic (and familiar) to me...now imagine adding another 20 hrs to your schedule. Can you see that as a possibility?"</p>
<p>-It would be ridiculous but not impossible if those extra 20 hours were from a weekend job.</p>
<p>"Honestly, I would probably go crazy if I had barely any free time and hardly slept every day. Is 500 different extracurriculars what admissions are looking for? I don't think so. Sure, it's nice to have many activities but then you start looking more like a machine that gets up, goes to all the ECs and then shuts down at the end of the day to recharge its batteries. Enjoy life, spend time with your friends, play some sports, and study."</p>
<p>-I thoroughly enjoy every activity I'm involved in. Although I work hard during the week, I unwind on weekends.</p>
<p>Violin - on average 21 hours
Church (and church related activities) - 15 hours
Model UN - 1 hour
Wall Street Society - 2.5 hours (every two-three weeks)</p>
<p>I do more (not in significant amounts though), but that's all that's going on my apps, which is about 40 hours. </p>
<p>I mean, 60 hours is possible. I know a kid who is a fantastic pianist (NEC, Julliard material), does all their homework, is captain of the math team, captain of the science olympiad team, captain of the WYSE team, captain of the JETs team, and somehow lives off of 3 hours of sleep during weekdays. But it's definitely not normal or healthy.</p>
<p>RC- Who needs sleep when there's a corrupt government to fix? I got a good 6.5/7 hours of sleep on weekends- more during the week. It's just a matter of multitasking. Eat on the job, you can go a day without a shower, and studying can be done on the road. Plus, all of my friends were involved in the same campaigns so there was no lack of socialization- much the opposite.</p>
<p>But I also only had between 2 to 5 hours of class a day, so class didn't really come in the way.</p>
<p>Hmmm...no job, no sports...maybe around 15? Yes, it's absolutely pathetic, but I'm going to contact professors to start doing research sometime, so that'll suck up a lot of my free time. I'm just starting sophomore year, anyway.</p>
<p>Hm, featured discussion! </p>
<p>OK, so I overlooked two important things in my original post.</p>
<p>1) Not all those activities take up the whole year. At no point do the activities all take place at once. So the weekly average would vary depending on the time of year.</p>
<p>2) For some activities, the number of hours varies widely. In the beginning, I may devote only an hour or two hours to an activity but as the season progresses, I start adding more and more hours. So I'm taking the overall average. Again, those numbers don't necessarily mean that I'm actually putting in 50 hours a week, every week.</p>
<p>Freshman</p>
<p>Debate - 3 HRs
Language Club - 1 HR
Hebrew College Class - 3 HRs
Latin (self-learning) - 2 HRs
Hospital volunteering - 3 HRs
Supermarket Job - 10 HRs
Humane Society Volunteering - 2 HRs</p>
<h2>Leadership Forum - 1.5 HRs (average)</h2>
<p>25.5 Total Hours, not including self studied APs, which would probably tack on another three hours. I thought I was busy, but apparently not compared to you people :P</p>
<p>^ you're going into 10th grade?</p>
<p>Are the hours you put for the 'extracurricular' section of applications supposed to include hours completed during school? For example, I take Orchestra as a class at my school, so that's automatically about 5 hours a week of in-school time spent on Orchestra. If I don't include rehearsals during class,that number would change to about 1 hour a week. Which number should I use?</p>
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<p>I'm in ninth -- my school year started a couple of days ago.</p>
<p>"I'm in ninth -- my school year started a couple of days ago."</p>
<p>-eh, you're lucky you found this site to get advice from that early. if I had known about all of these cool Olympiads, RSI, TASP and other things, I think I would have done better but...w/e (harvard 2011)</p>
<p>(using friends account)</p>
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<p>Haha, I wouldn't be complaining.</p>
<p>lol I missed out on a lot of things because I didn't know about them. I did a lot of research and I wish I knew about RSI. </p>
<p>(using friends account)</p>
<p>2 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 8 + 8 ... 28</p>
<p>quality over quantity</p>
<p>I'm surprised people haven't mentioned that some activities are only done for specific parts of the year. On my app, I think it's something like 52 hrs if i add it up, but that includes, math team, track, and knowledge bowl, all three of which do NOT run concurrently. </p>
<p>For example: if my activities are</p>
<h1>1: 10hrs/45wks</h1>
<h1>2: 5 hrs/15wks</h1>
<h1>3: 3 hrs/20wks</h1>
<h1>4: 8 hrs/15wks</h1>
<h1>5: 15 hrs/10wks</h1>
<h1>6: 7 hrs/45wks</h1>
<h1>7: 4 hrs/15wks</h1>
<p>then I would have 52 hours total, but that doesn't mean I am actually doing 52 hours EVERY week. Usually it's more like 25-30 hrs because my some activities aren't concurrent.</p>
<p>yeah its not like that for me. im in two clubs, that run through the year. im president of both, so i have to be at both meetings every week = 2 hrs each, plus i have to be at weekly volunteer meetings and all of that good stuff, since im the one that started it haha. that hads 2-3 hours a week. its allllllllllllllllllllllll volunteer work though, mostly. i dont know, one club is almost completely community service with a city wide initiative. so i guess, this EC would fall under volunteering?</p>
<p>whatever. research is my other big one, which is 6-8 hours a week.
and then a "paid" internship at a mentally retarded institution. volunteer again? 8 - 15 hrs - each weekend. </p>
<p>wow ***
all my ec's are community service</p>
<p>Some apps ask for a "weekly" EC or volunteer hour total, with no place to indicate how your time was actually divided. I remember my kids complaining about scholarship apps that didn't ask the right questions. If your volunteer experience was 2 months in the summer for 52 hours total, were you supposed to say it averaged an hour a week for the entire year? :D </p>
<p>Dumb questionnaire.</p>
<p>I'm not exaggerating, and I'm not doing clubs for college. I sincerely LOVE all the clubs I do, and really it's not that i don't ever socialize. In fact, i think clubs are a great way to socialize and meet people. But I'm worried that adcom won't believe me when i put down
12hrs-piano, piano ensemble president
15hrs-dance company, dance team captain, "adv. dancer" title
4hrs-environmental newspaper editor-in-chief
5hrs-yearbook sr board layout director
3hrs-gospel choir-club head
2hrs-outreach music lessons club head
3hrs-liberty club president
2hrs-student council dorm representative
2hrs-martin luther king day committee
1hr-diversity council
7hrs-work
----56hours, consistently throughout the school year
(and this is not counting smaller commitments like model un or community service)
classes take up 30 hrs each week, and i sleep on average 4 hours a day (but the sleep pattern is like 2 hours, 6 hours, 8 hours, all-nighter..etc)</p>
<p>i have done these clubs consistently and have leadership positions in most. and like i said, i love my ec's . but does it make me seem, idk crazy to adcom? should i cut out things?</p>