question about the commonapp activity short answer (150 words)

<p>it asks for elaboration on some extracurricular activity or work experience.</p>

<p>my question is, must I talk about extracurricular activity? can it be a personal hobby?
like, I like to play basketball in my freetime, but I don't join it in school... is it possible?</p>

<p>Basically, you listed your activities in order of importance on the previous page right? and it never specifies that those activities needed to be through school. So if I were you I would stick to ellaborating on one of the ones that you listed (seeing as basketball is important enough to you to ellaborate on then it really should be in the list…) </p>

<p>My point is, that if it is important enough to want to write about then it should be in your EC list. And you should try and write about one from your EC list. Is that helpful at all?</p>