<p>It's okay check the "9th grade" box for an activity started in the summer after 9th grade, right? I've heard that summers following a grade can count on that grade.</p>
<p>I would think it would depend on your school. Our school policy is that once you take the exams at the end of the year you are no longer in that grade level. Anything I did during the summer before 11th grade would count toward junior year.</p>
<p>what if my school has no official policy...</p>
<p>i didn't know schools have policies regarding something like this.</p>
<p>Well, that is just my school. If your school doesn't have a policy then you should be okay for marking for 9th grade. Still, I doubt anyone will get picky about what grade you did the activity in as long as it is somewhere near the actual time period you completed it in.</p>
<p>Well this activity continued from summer after 9th-present, so its a long-term thing. Eh, it should be fine..the app never specifies what do do with summers anyways.</p>
<p>bumpp....so am i ok for for checking the 9th grade box on apps, when it started in the summer after 9th and continues to now...?</p>
<p>will colleges get suspicious if you start a new ec in junior year? like do they think you started it just to look good to colleges? what if you joined like 10 more in your junior year like me? (lol i know this is bad, but still) i also started a club and i may start another or 3. how can i convince colleges im doing these because i like them and not to look good. i do have a ton of leadership positions and awards though. (like im pres of a most of the clubs im in) </p>
<p>(btw there was some humerous sarcasm in there. its all true, but the joke is that i didnt do anything, and now im doing a ton.)</p>
<p>haha noo hijacking! answer my question peoples! haha</p>
<p>i dunno, but my school considers anything in the summer before the year to be part of it. so you finish sophmore year the day school is let out. then any summer school you do is considered for the next year. so i dont think you can. like if football is started in augest it counts for the upcoming year, not the last one. sorry if thats not what you wanted to hear.</p>
<p>shark bite: Truthfully it does look a little suspicious, but then again if you have a leadership position it will show you as more committed to the activity. That is how I would view it. I also joined some clubs during junior year, but I was really dedicated to them so during senior year I went into a position for the club.</p>
<p>bubble: I don't see any problem for checking 9th grade if your school doesn't have the policy I stated in my earlier post. If you have any real doubts then maybe you could call a friend or ask your GC later.</p>
<p>i can't obviously change it now, but my GC said it would be ok to do what i did...</p>
<p>i never thought about it much when i checked 9th, but thinking about it i'm not so sure what is correct. i just dont want it to be considered "dishonest" or something, because it wasn't.</p>
<p>thanks for the help, though.</p>
<p>bubble, I really wouldn't worry too much about it...even if there is a little error in duration I don't think you would be seen as dishonest. Some app had me write down month/years of duration and at times I had to estimate to the best of my ability. I know it is close to the period which I think is good enough. Dishonest would be saying you did the activity but you really didn't do it.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reassurance, shaddix. :) I'm paranoid about things like this.</p>
<p>no problem :)</p>
<p>does the summer before 9th grade count as 9th grade then, even if you havnt stepped foot in a highschool? is the summer after 12th grade considered college, even if you arent going to college?</p>
<p>For my school the summer before 9th grade counts as 9th grade.You are no longer in 8th grade so hence you would be considered a rising 9th grader.</p>
<p>for most of my summer activities, i checked the grade directly before that summer. i don't think it would matter--but most of them were independent activities, not school-related, so that might be different.</p>
<p>Mine weren't school related either.</p>
<p>But my activity also lasted from summer after 9th--12th, so by checking 9th I just realized it makes it seem like I've done it ALL of 9th grade. But then if just checked 10th-12th, they woudl think I started in Sept, which isnt the case either. </p>
<p>It's clear that its a long term commitment regardless, though. I'm ok? My GC told me it coudl check 9th.</p>