Foreign Exchange as an EC on Common App -- How many hours per week?

TeenPhilosopher
Sun, 21 Aug 2016 23:38:29 +0000

I’ve recently returned to the US after a year of study abroad in Japan via Rotary Youth Exchange. I’m now a senior and am busy filing out college apps, but on the common app I’m forced to state how many hours per week I participated in a particular EC (which seems ridiculous to me, but oh well). Although I do plan to write my essay about my exchange year in Japan, I want to list my exchange as my major-most EC (should I do this?) and thus need to specify how many hours per week I “participated” (considering I was physically in Japan full-time, I’d say 24 hours a day, lol).

I considered putting the amount of time I attended (a regular Japanese) high school there: 7 hours a day, 5 days a week = 35 hours a week. However, saying that I did this for 35 hours a week for 48 weeks sounds kind of ridiculous (that’s 1680 hours, btw). How should I go about this?