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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is my daughter’s list. She is a lot more motivated than I am!

Fall/Spring sports all 4 years, plus winter training
Volunteers 2x month doing food distribution 
Foster kittens (lots of time involved in this)
Member of a county wide board
Social media manager for one club
President of Model UN
Secretary for another club
Tutoring through English Honor Society
Member of a few other clubs
Works part time
Volunteers for student government projects at school 
Member of a district wide advisory committee. [/quote]

Wow!  My DC will have a much smaller list. The main activity demands 16-20 hours a week year round. There just isn’t enough time with school in the way. :p[/quote]

I think colleges looking at a list like pp’s will tend to assume her commitment to most of the activities was fairly minimal, maybe an hour or two a month at most. [/quote]

Good news! The common app makes applicants calculate how many hours per week, how many weeks a year, and how many years (high school only).[/quote]

Yes, but self reported and people will inflate and lie.[/quote]

But at a certain point, the math can't add up if kids inflate it.

7 hours school
6 hours sleep
2 hours commute/eat/shower (and that assumes close school, quick shower, eat on the run)
2 hours homework (at least.  Often my kid has 4 hours and/or is really front loading the weekend)

that leaves 7 hours for all those other activities: sports which is 2-3 hours, a job which i am guessing has a minimum 4 hour shift, cats apparently take a lot...

Math that doesn't add up to a 24 hour day would be a red flag, right?

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Not sure why you are trying to add this all up as an every day and weekday thing. Like a pp said, some sports aren't every day. My kid's was 3 dats/week + 1 day every other weekend.  Still intense during that period, but it wasn't all year. Some kids volunteer in summer or on weekends.  I don't know about time commitment for cat care, though! (Not that poster). Some civic activities are only 2x a month. A list like that is reasonable and doesn't necessarily suggest spreading oneself thin. The kids put in #hours/week and #weeks/year and #years. So, it is clear what was a major investment and what was a minor involvement.

My kid practices an instrument 2 hours a day pretty much every day. She probably got 6 hours of sleep in HS but had short commute. Her other commitments were larger chunks at different times or minor commitments. It was not unreasonable as her admissions record attests. But, it was stressful because it was hard for her to balance it all. For sure.[/quote]

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