How many hours are too few to report?

[coramDeo]

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Hey all,

I'm just wondering if certain volunteering hours are "too few" to report.
If you did something once a week over 4~5 months, and had about 30 hours, is that too few to report? 40? 50?

Any input would be great, thanks!

 

[ZotZotter]

Don't make the decision based just on the number. Consider how well you can speak to what you experienced/learned in those 30/40/50 hours...if you think your activity description would just be fluff, its not worth including. If in 30/40/50 hours, you developed some skill that you genuinely think is worth sharing with the admissions committee....include it. You definitely will not find an absolute cutoff in hours for "worthwhile-ness"...its relative

 

[KaioKaizen]

All depends what is on the rest of your application. I have seen people with a catch all "other volunteering" that include several items of very few hours like less than 10

Could I say the same thing for, say, volunteering I did through the fraternity and just list the organizations that I did it with in the description?

 

[spotted_drum]

Yup

I have heard from a former adcom I spoke to that combining hours into a catch all is not a good thing to do? Only acceptable if you were doing said hours through the same organization each time?
Thanks