My freshman year of high school, I attended a good amount of GSA meetings with my friend. In addition, last semester, I was a part of a certain coding club. I attended most meetings and I was in the club picture and everything, but the meetings were every Tuesday and Thursday after school until 5:30 and if you missed a session you would fall way behind. I’m in a lot of ap classes, so I’d often have to miss the meetings to attend tutorials. Also the meeting day fell on the meeting day of like 2 other clubs im in so I ultimately had to stop attending. I was just wondering if I would still be able to put clubs like those on my applications because I was technically a member, and dedicated a lot of time to those activities.
Yes, add them.
You can list them, the real question is if you should list them. When you list your ECs, make them powerful by listing them in order - most important to you/things you spent the most time on/most impressive first in the list going down to the less impressive ones. Quality is better than quantity.
Colleges won’t be very impressed by a long list of ECs where you just showed up and sat through them a few times a week, no matter how many hours you did that. They’ll want to see ECs that show you exploring different things, growing as a person, making an impact, etc. Does attending meetings show any of that? Not sure from your description.
It’s totally possible you just didn’t bother to describe the awesome details because they weren’t part of your question, but think hard about the details before you decide what to list. If the details are that you attended a lot of meetings… eh. If the details are that this was where you discovered your love of , got to become an expert in or impacted your community by ______ … then that’s something to definitely list.
Keep a spreadsheet of your ECs throughout HS…keep track of how many hours you spend on them.