@inthegarden. I will respond since you singled me out. (that’s perfectly fine). I answered her question honestly and I truly think there is a better story to be told here. No AO is going to be impressed with dancing 3.5 hours a week. But I understand what you are saying and 100% agree with it mostly. If that is her main EC then she needs to put it in better context. At least to me it reads that she loves dance so much she is willing to walk 2 hours to get there to do it. To me, that is the deeper story. As a reader that doesn’t know her history on CC. I want to know why. That to me makes her interesting, unique and personal. Those are my 3 main criteria for a great essay. So my suggestion was to help this student. I think a really cool and introspective essay can come out of this and how it relates to dance and then how it relates to what type of student she will be in college and what she can offer the college by taking her.
But 3.5 hours dance alone is just 1 EC. Now if she won some dance competition with just 3.5 hours a week then that would be impressive.