<p>Well I just submitted my applications and filled in all my EC's. I'm kind of wondering if I should send all the schools I applied to a reference sheet with phone numbers to the heads of all my activities. </p>
<p>My EC list looks like this:
Work - 20 hours a week (will give Phone # to owner)
Track Indoor/Outdoor - 10hrs a week
Business Club - 3 hrs a week
Associate editor or paper - 4hrs a week
Rec Basketball - 3 hrs a week
Cross Country - 10 hrs a week</p>
<p>Of course all activities aren't happening at once due to seasons, but I don't know if colleges will believe me.</p>
<p>Do you think it is a smart idea to send a list with my EC's listed and the phone numbers to all the people who run them?</p>
<p>I think you are fine. There’s no such thing has “having too many ECs”. The problem is not the number of ECs, but the quality of the time the student puts in them. I could be a member of everything but do nothing, or I could be a member of 3 clubs and have leadership positions and a lot of working time in them.</p>
<p>your list of ECs isn’t significantly outside the norm - most schools will have seen similar. That said, it is a good list. We created a separate one page “EC Resume” for both of our college applicants. It made it easy at application time. There were some colleges that used a computer-based form and we had to reenter everything, but we knew where to copy/paste from.</p>
<p>As to references, I don’t think you need that.</p>
<p>Thank god. Thank you for the response guys. I don’t want Adcoms to think I’m lying. I’m going to give a reference sheet to my GC who is new this year and knows close to nothing about my EC’s just incase a school calls. </p>
<p>I don’t think the number of ECs is a problem, but your hours are somewhat long.
If you do so many hours per week, it divides to about 7 hrs a day. You probably get out of school at 3ish, so you do ECs until 10 PM? :o</p>
<p>^He says he doesn’t do it all at the same time. But I do question with the work and everything, that his hours aren’t a lil “stretched.” unless you do it all on the weekends or something? Or maybe you don’t spend too many wks on each activity? Or, maybe, just maybe, your Superman?</p>
<p>Well the hours for work are a average of summer and school hours. I work 32 hours a week during the summer (3 9hr days and 1 5hr day). During the week, I work on both weekends and occasionally after school which truley does add up to around 20 hrs. This has caused major problems with my track EC and is the reason I skipped seasons for the sport. The coach was getting mad that I kept missing practices/meets which is understandable, but work comes first.</p>