<p>I'm applying to colleges at the moment, and most of the EC's I'm listing on the Common App involve participation from 10th grade onwards. The main reason for this is that I joined a number of school clubs my freshman year to see what I liked, stuck with only one or two of them, and then found activities outside of school for the next three years. Should I list some of the 9th-grade-only clubs to show that I didn't waste that year in terms of EC's?</p>