My school has a core number of hours you have to fulfill before you graduate, but typically I just turn in the minimum amount of hours I need to graduate but I do way more than I actually submit.
My question is, can I count the hours I don’t submit on my common app? Will that show a discrepancy between what I submit to my school and other hours I do on my own, such as volunteer at hospital, local teens club ect?
Another question, at my local church, I have participated in their Greek dance team, although I don’t actually dance at our local festival I still know many dances, so would it be a fib to say I Greek dance??
Service hours for school doesn’t show up on your transcript. Usually, people just put their volunteer work as 1 of the 10 activities you can put on your common app, and they put the amount of hours they did in the brief description box. I had the same issue because my school required around 32 hours per year and I would do around 150+ at the hospital, but there was no problem because the service hours for school is reserved just for the school.
I think you can submit all your volunteer hours and that would be fine! Also I would consider Greek dance an extracurricular. Even though you don’t go to the festivals, you’re still on the team and practice so yes that definitely counts! Good luck!
Colleges require no reporting whatsoever about vol hours. Any discrepancy on your transcript and what you report won’t be noticed. Just report honestly and you’re fine
It’s not a big deal whatsoever. You could have ZERO vol hours and it wouldn’t matter. HS students over-estimate its importance to colleges ALL THE TIME.
Let’s admit is does matter at some colleges. Better to be an activated sort than assume. You can get an idea where it matters by reading up on their values and seeing the sorts of kids they brag about. Rarely, at a competitive college, do you find them excited abut a kid who just goes to class, studies, and hangs with friends.
Yes, if you really do participate in Greek dance, it’s an activity. If you only show up once in a while, when you feel like it, you might reconsider.
It’s not a fib to say you do Greek dancing if you actually do it. The criteria for an EC isn’t whether you show up at the festivals. And no one will care about the discrepancy between the volunteer hours on your transcript and those you actually did. Anyone who would want to question it can always contact your supervisor to verify your actual volunteer hours, not that anyone ever will.