Common App - Hours per Week for extracurriculars

EgoFocusThought
Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:15:33 +0000

Hey,

First, I’d like to say that I hate the Common App. Its format is awful for describing your extracurriculars. But - it asks for hours per week, and I must oblige.

How can you possibly answer that? For ECs like Student Council, I could work as little as 2 hours per week to almost 20. There really was never an average.

Also, what’s a reasonable amount of time spent within clubs? For most of mine, it was about 5 hours a week. Reasonable?