Should I list this activity?

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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<p>I participated in a certain activity from when I was about 7 until I was about 12 or 13. This year (I am a senior), I'm starting to do it again. However, since the Common App only lets you include the activities that you participated in during high school, colleges would only see that I participated in the activity for one year.</p>

<p>My question is: Should I list the activity, or does it seem like I'm padding my app?
Also, if I do list it, is there some way that I can show colleges that I have re-discovered my passion for it, and that it's not just something I decided to start right before apps are due?</p>

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<p>maybe you can include it briefly in your additional info but only if you consider it really important</p>

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<p>I wasn’t planning on adding additional info though.</p>

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<p>if not then you can just put as you stated and put all the info but in details you can put participated since [enter year here].</p>

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<p>Hmm that could work.
Any other ideas?</p>

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<p>similar question: someone told me to only put stuff i did in high school…i have a lot of stuff I’ve been active in for years though with church and other groups, wouldn’t that be a good thing to add (shows dedication, not a quitter, etc)?? Or will they only want to see what I’ve done recently?</p>

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<p>@boxerdog17 If you’ve been involved in that activity for all four years of high school, I would suggest checking all four boxes and then in the description including something like “Participated in x activity for x number of years.”</p>