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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was there a reason she was so specific? I mean, she volunteered-- cannot she just say "volunteered at daycare on a regular basis"?
She still did the work and did a good thing, just not as much. [/quote]

You have to enter in the approximate hours and weeks in the common app activities section.[/quote]

And it is surprising hard to do based on the way it is formatted. I don't recall exactly how it read when we did it, but it makes you give an average per week over a year, but most activities are not year long or weekly and make no sense under the format. Plus, if you do something mostly in the summer, but also a month before and few months after, and holiday breaks, then it also done's fit the format nicely. Also, if they ask the place where volunteering happened, they will give the hours there and may not include the commute time, which is a lot for some kids and a big part of scheduling, especially for athletes who have to travel a lot, or people who volunteer at rural locations. There is no where on the app to explain these naunces. It's not as straight forward as you'd expect because you don't get to type in a specific accurate answer.[/quote]

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