Should I include these strange hobbies in app?

Applying to College
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<p>I have just completed my activity list, and I am wondering about few things: As advised in Acing the college application, I intend to attach a separate list of activities. How is this accomplished in the real world? Do I just mail it to the admission office with my name???? </p>

<p>Now to the information itself: </p>

<p>I have started several things way back, when I was 12 years old, and I am doing them to this moment. So should I put in the Years active column 7-12th Grade, or will officers view this as disrespecting the given form, which is only from 9th grade?</p>

<p>I have landed my first job 13 year old; I was a photographer for a music club. Should I tell them the truth, or pretend that the job was legal, and that I was working from 15 years?</p>

<p>And second thing, I have two hobbies, that I don't know whether I should include. First hobby is a free remote healing of people. This subject is pretty strange, yet I love to do it. Will the officer view me as a weirdo? </p>

<p>Next hobby is weightlifting. I don't know if I should include it, because many people don't view it as a sport (while weightlifting is in some ways much more demanding than, for example, football). I spend 6hours weekly in the gym, six hours cooking gym food and two hours on studying techniques of lifts. For me, it is very serious time investment, which brings me great joy. However, should I include it?</p>

<p>Recapitulation of questions:</p>

<p>1) How I attach my custom made activity list?
2) Should I include years before 9th grade?
3) Should I talk about working as a photographer in 7th grade?
4) Should I talk about remote healing?
5) Should I talk about weight lifting?</p>

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<p>Here’s my advice (I am a parent who has been through this process with my S):</p>

<p>1) When you complete the Common Ap. online there are instructions on how to attach a document. Your activity list should definitely be part of your application, not sent separately.
2) Don’t include pre-high school activities. Only time I would say this is OK is if you won a major state/national award during these years.
3) Could you touch on this early work experience in your essay? Might be interesting.
4) My thought is not to include this, but others might think differently. Have you talked to your HS GC about this?
5) Yes, include weight lifting as one of your activities.</p>

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<p>free remote healing: it’s too supernatural. It’d be like a Pentecostal christian listing “speaking in tongues” on a job resume. Not relevant for the context. Omit it.</p>

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<p>2) Yes, if you’re still participating in those activities. No, if you aren’t.
3) See 2.
4) Probably not - depends on the new-aginess of the college you’re applying to.
5) Yes.</p>

<p>From an non-photographing, non-healing, non-weightlifting mom of non-photographing, non-healing, non-weightlifting child.</p>