<p>When filling out the section in the Common App and the UC Application, it states to fill out activities that I did starting from my 9th grade. However, most of the extra-curricular activities I did were before I entered high school. Is there any way I could possibly include these? What should I do? Thanks for all your help. </p>
<p>My kid had at least one activity that went way back (she monitored a bluebird trail for 9 years and helped over 300 bluebirds hatch in our neighborhood). She put that comment in (it was long enough that she said, “See additional infomration”, then in additional info she put a few bullets about it (how long she had done it, # of bluebirds hatched, that she had entered data into Cornell Nestwatch database for several years, won 4H ribbons for it in high school). Because it was a long-standing activity with an impressive total accomplishment over the years, it made sense. Now some school activities and sports she had started in middle school, she did not talk about those before 9th grade. So it is a bit of a judgement call. </p>