Anonymous wrote:More than 2-3 extracurriculars is overkill. When I was in high school, my activities were sports practice, homework, and girls, girls, girls. I got into some damn good schools with that resume.

That was a long, long, long time ago.

My kid's club swim team is 2 hours a day 6 days a week plus dryland for 4-5 hours a week. Plus weekend meets. That's 49 weeks a year. Then high school swim takes about 5-7 hours a week. That's 18 weeks a year.

He does a few other activities and I'd say he easily spends 20+ hours on activities in a week.

More than 2-3 extracurriculars is overkill. When I was in high school, my activities were sports practice, homework, and girls, girls, girls. I got into some damn good schools with that resume.

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Anonymous wrote:My DD is an expert in one EC (non athletic) and easily spends 25-30 hrs/wk on it, even during school year. FWIW, her CC said put 15 hrs/wk max.

debate tournaments are 15 hours alone. never mind the meetings, prep, travel

not every week though. there's a formula on averaging....its not like its 15 hrs/week for 36 weeks for one activity.
that would definitely cause eyebrows to raise.

How many weeks per year?

30 hours, or even 40+ some weeks, seems not uncommon for a lot of high performing student-athletes

Anonymous wrote:My DD is an expert in one EC (non athletic) and easily spends 25-30 hrs/wk on it, even during school year. FWIW, her CC said put 15 hrs/wk max.

debate tournaments are 15 hours alone. never mind the meetings, prep, travel

I bet there are 40 kids at my local high school that spend 25+ on a single activity (student body gov, the super volunteers, the kids who work, the kids who take care of siblings).

Anonymous wrote:My DD is an expert in one EC (non athletic) and easily spends 25-30 hrs/wk on it, even during school year. FWIW, her CC said put 15 hrs/wk max.

15 for one activity, right? Not total?

My DD is an expert in one EC (non athletic) and easily spends 25-30 hrs/wk on it, even during school year. FWIW, her CC said put 15 hrs/wk max.

during my kids sport season:
2 hours a week practice 5 days a week. plus 4hour (min) game 1x a week.

that's 14 hours there. some of these kids work a job so they're easily over 30. Not counting prom committee or volunteering.

Ballet, theater kids, debate kids .. these are all 15 hours a week alone

I can see it.

20 seems like max cap area.

Anonymous wrote:My kids add up to 30. And it’s true for feels .. crazy?

(It is crazy)

Hours per week? Even assuming that includes several hours a week for something like a team sport or play rehearsal, that seems high. Is there an overestimate happening somewhere for an irregular or intermittent activity?

Can you break it down for us?

I highly doubt it’s actually true if you are posing this question

My kids add up to 30. And it’s true for feels .. crazy?

(It is crazy)