Activities in the College App

Does a sport have to be organized for it to be put on college apps? Like does playing by yourself/with one other person casually count?

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Sure. I haven’t seen the newest Common App, so I don’t know all the options, but if there’s no category for hobbies, I guess you could put it down as “Other.”

Thanks!

Anyone else’s opinions?

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No your sport doesn’t have to be organized. No activity has to be officially organized or sponsored or anything like that. Your EC could be something you do all by yourself - photography, repairing old cars, selling something that you make, etc…They just want to know how you spend your time (the number of hours/wk). Obviously, if you have accomplished, learned and/or contributed something significant as a result, you can always write about it.

Thanks @N’sMom

You can put it down, but they will pretty easily realize the extent to which you were involved in the activity.

What does this have to do with involvement? @puzzled123