CAS and the uni

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I wonder how important CAS, how much do they look into it? i sweden i don't think they could care less, so explain it to me how important is it?

My problem is i do some very time consumming things that do not fall into CAS according to our CAS cordinator.
I vice-president of the school council (yeah i should have been president, but those feministic ******* wanted a girl...)
and i can't count this as CAS even though i organize a lot of cool things and basically do something that learns me much about leadership
and how to take structure up things... so can i still somehow include this when aplying??

and how much CAS hours are you guys doing? i could have a lot of action hours, but our school says it is better to have a somewhat
equally devided between the subjects. How much is acceptable to differ between C A and S.
oh yeah and i passed CAS deadline this year (we have 4 during the year, and i finally managed to pass the last one failed the rest, due to mostly stupid reasons)

[thatgirl]

I heard it's very important, but so is being VP of the student council, I guess. It depends, if you want to study in Sweden and they don't care, don't stress. But if you want to study abroad, it helps.

[__inthemaking]

In Canada, it's not really important at all actually. I accepted into all the universities I applied without any of them really mentioning CAS.

[cereja]

I doubt it's important in the US. At all.

BUT you can use things you did for CAS hours (volunteering, leadership stuff) that will help you look better in your application.