How many hours is impressive?

decrescendo
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:37:21 +0000

The number of hours done in an activity won’t impress college admission committees at the Ivy League and peer institutions. What will impress them is long-term commitment that yielded positive results: in other words, 200 hours of community service means very little if it’s just the hours that you show. A project created by the student that helped the community would mean a lot more. Similarly, doing 10 hours of debate a week means little compared to doing it 5 hours a week and placing at tournaments at a state and/or national level. It’s all about what you do and where you go with the EC: your level of accomplishment and the EC’s impact on your life is more significant than the number of hours you participated in.