<p>So I was accepted to All-Region orchestra for the past three years, but I only actually went and performed my freshman year, and basically ditched my sophomore and junior years. If I still put down all region for three years in my app as an extracurricular, would it be lying? also, I did a local youth orchestra for four years total starting from seventh grade to 10th, but my app only has room for me to mark the years I was in the organization during high school, making it look as if I only did the youth orchestra for two years and quit. how can I show in my app that I did it for four years? or would it even matter?</p>
<p>Yes, you can only put All-Region down if you attended. You gave your spot away when you ditched. You can’t put something down that you didn’t actually do. As for the youth orchestra, in the details section, you can put the year span that you participated (although they don’t care what you did before high school). I did this with dance last year, I think I wrote something along the lines of dance 1999-present</p>
<p>Put down selected three years for the regional orchestra. It shows a level of competence, if not diligence.</p>
<p>Except for selected implies you participated when talking about groups like All-Regional and All State. Also, when you give up your spot, someone else takes your spot (they pull an alternate), you no longer have claim to that spot. </p>
<p>If you really want to put it, I would explicitly state that you did not attend (Although I wouldn’t list it at all).</p>
<p>You can put “Nominated for All-State Orchestra” and not be lying.</p>
<p>I believe I had something like that in high school - nominated but did not attend.</p>
<p>Selected means exactly that. You could compete for a spot in an orchestra and be selected and opt for a different one. </p>
<p>Seems kind of dishonest to me. Plus, why would you list something you didn’t take part in? I wouldn’t list “Accepted to SIMR but didn’t attend”. That’s just silly.</p>
<p>true, but idk… i would feel sad just leaving that out because the participating part was two days that i had to skip because of personal reasons and the auditioning took months of practice, running around back and forth between my choir and band directors to get myself registered… etc :(</p>
<p>Use the EC lines to list the activities that you actually did.</p>
<p>but the whole point of all-regional, all-district, all-state etc is not winning the audition, it participating in it and learning from the experience. Where I live, it really doesn’t mean anything unless you participate. In my state, if you make all-regional but don’t participate in the event, you forfeit your all-state eligibility, same with all-district (if your chair makes you eligible). If you make all-state and don’t attend, you are banned from auditioning for all events for the next year (barring extreme circumstances of course, I’m sure they won’t hold it against you if you were hospitalized for example, thats why theres alternates).</p>