<p>I am so bad at estimating this! Can anyone tell me if this is realistic?</p>
<p>Theater: I figure it's 10 hours a week per show; I do two shows a year, and they're generally 6 week long rehearsals. Per year, it would be 120 hours, plus something like 3 hours per week for when I act in student-drected productions, for about a month= 7 hours. </p>
<p>Total=127 hours per year on theater</p>
<p>Realistic??</p>
<p>I also find 50 hours a week amazingly large, I'm busy almost 24/7 but I can only manage about 40 hrs/wk MAX (if they ever overlap)</p>
<p>MUN; 2 hrs/wk, ~20 wks/yr
Math Team; 1 hr/wk, 10 wks/yr
Track/xc; 10 hrs/wk, 15 wks/yr
Student Gov; 2 hrs/wk, 35 wks/yr
Young Democrats; 15 hrs/wk, 45 wks/yr
USPSA; 5 hrs/wk, 40 wks/yr
Volunteer Group; 5 hrs/wk, 5 wks/yr</p>
<p>bondgirl, that's totally realistic. It averages out to about 20 minutes a day over the course of the whole year.</p>
<p>The participation levels for my ECs changes a lot. One week, I won't do anything for one club, and a lot for another. How am I supposed to calculate it?</p>
<p>I can't imagine how all of you can spend so much time on ECs. Admittedly, due to some medical issues, I cannot participate in sports, but it seems almost obscene how much time is spent towards ECs. Don't you spend time with your families? How do you get from point A to point B? Do your parents drive you? I certainly can't afford a car since all of the money I earn goes directly into a college fund. More importantly, when you are stretched so thin, do you really enjoy anything that you do, or are you just barely making in through your days?</p>
<p>Homework, for me, can easily take four hours daily. I have to help my LD brother with HIS homework for another 2 hrs. So that's six hrs gone, in addition to the 7 hours spent at school. Another 7 hours are devoted to sleep (I know, how selfish of me) so now we're down to four free hours a day, not including weekends. Of those free hours, at least one is spent on preparing, eating, and cleaning up a family meal. So now we're down to three hours left over for ECs if I don't want to socialize at all.</p>
<p>On average, I spend about 10 hrs/wk on ECs, not including helping my brother out or work. How can you fit significantly more time in without sacrificing yourselves as members of your family, your grades, or your mental and physical health?</p>
<p>^ thats what most cc'ers do to get into their dream colleges. It's often impossible to live a "regular" teenage life and still get into an Ivy.</p>
<p>That is almost 9 hours a day... assuming you get out of school at 2:30, that means you seamlessly from place to place til 11:30 during the school day.... definately not practical. They are more interested in the fact you actually do it.</p>
<p>my biggest problem is ECs is getting to places. my mom works until 6 every day and my dad travels nearly all the time, and when he's not he works until 10-12ish. My mom hates the fact that when she comes home she is exhausted but has to cook dinner and run errands and on top of that has to take me to art class twice a week. I get a ride home from school from a friend everyday at 3:00 but from 3:00-6:30 I have no way of getting anywhere.
I'm a Junior and I don't turn 16 until October and then since its NY I can't get my Junior License until April
and then there's the matter of a car</p>
<p>It would just make life sooooo much easier.</p>
<p>Internship: 6 hrs/wk, ~40 wks
Tennis: 2-6 hrs/wk, ~50 wks
Crew: 5 hrs/wk, ~ 40 wks
NHS: 3 hrs/wk, ~ 40 wks
SSHS: 3 hrs/wk, ~ 40 wks (although 96-100 hrs/wk when MUN comes around)
Young Democrats: 3 hrs/wk, ~40 wks
Tutoring: 2-6 hrs/wk, ~40 wks
The Children's Trust of Miami-Dade County: 3 hrs/wk, ~12 wks (although 72-96 when lobbying in the Capitol week comes around)
City of Miami: 2 hrs/wk, ~24 wks</p>
<p>I can't count and add that all up, but there it is</p>
<p>96-100 hours per week...I don't think you can count sleeping, eating, etc. while at a conference as activity hours.</p>
<p>I'm not going to say much about other people's claims on this forum. I'm sure many of you are extraordinarily busy, but I'm also sure many of you are grossly exagerrating.<br>
as for me, on a busy week, 18 hrs.
but then again I spend A LOT of time on unofficial EC's, like creating programs, writing, etc</p>
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<p>A lot of people do. But they don't count that when calculating the hours spent on the ECs listed in the application.</p>
<p>ok... does this seem sketch? so for one of my activities I have concert band, which is technically a class.... but we do a ton of stuff outside of school so i counted it as an EC too...I can do that right? As long as I alter the hours to take out the amount I spend in class?</p>
<p>and also... one of my clubs got cut down, so now my hours have changed for this year from like 2hrs/25weeks to like 1hr/10weeks... should I tell them about this?</p>
<p>What qualifies as e.c? Negotiating price with customers? :p </p>
<p>I'm involved in student body, which consumes time before and after school. I also help set up posters and "solicit" the parents of students to donate/attend x fundraiser.</p>
<p>Do these count as e.c's??</p>
<p>I don't see how you guys could possibly have 50 hours of 6 different e.c's a week plus a job. </p>
<p>That's just ridiculous.</p>
<p>^ agreed. IMHO, anyone spending 40h+/week has:</p>
<ol>
<li>no life</li>
<li>very little hwk</li>
<li>plain liar</li>
</ol>
<p>Hey... so are you guys including part time jobs in your "I do ____ ECs /week"? because I have 53 hrs/week but that includes the 20hrs/week I work.... is that still insanely high?</p>
<p>ohh ^^ and I would fall under the "no life" category...haha</p>
<p>33 hours a week. Seems reasonable to me. I also had an activity that was an additional eight hours a week but it only lasted 8 weeks.</p>
<p>i work 38 hours/week at my job.
my ec's come out to 4hrs/week
my sport is 2 hrs/week.</p>