[Stupid?]Question about activities on the Common app

griffen
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:58:11 +0000

you definitely want to indicate the years for your positions. such as: Pres(12), VP (9-11) do bubble in all the years you participated

and as for the hours, there is not a bright line of right and wrong so long as you average it out and try to be consistent. the goal is to give the adcoms a sense of where you spend most of your time. don’t try to impress them with a huge number of hours, just try to show the relative commitment among your activities. the actual hours you state aren’t going to be a critical factor; they are just there to give a sense of your level of involvement. If you have to make a judgment call, you want to lean toward reporting the hours spent in the most recent year that you’ve bubbled in.