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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD hated that activities section. What was she to do if her hours fluctuate during the year or from year to year? She typically works from 5 to 15 hours weekly depending on the time of the year. I just told her to average them. So she just put 10hrs/week for the whole year. She has a fall sports, so it looks like she does a lot of hours during that time (25hrs for sport and 10 for job). We really didn't think about too many hours being a problem. I hope it's ok. Common app does not provide any space to explain.[/quote]

I agree. Objectively in total my kid's junior year makes no sense, but it is literally correct the way they make you do it. It looks like 50 hour per week, but they aren't busy in the same weeks so it isn't actually cumulative. They should give a line to describe the hours with words: "I hour per week x 27 weeks  except during shows, then 30 hours per week x3 weeks x 3 shows." Sport in season 15 hours per week x 8 weeks." (not the same weeks as theater, obviously). And so on. It's so hard to make sense of this when you have so many different activities that go on all year but have different busy seasons.[/quote]

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