<p>Is there a way to sneak an award won in eighth grade onto my app? Would you recommend it, or does that make me seem desperate?</p>
<p>Not that I am desperate :)</p>
<p>I wouldn't do it. Saying you've done an EC SINCE 4th grade or something is one thing, putting on award from 8th is another.</p>
<p>Okay, so 8th grade makes me sound desperate. Here's one more for you. One of my big EC's is organizing a fundraiser. Thing is, the fundraiser, though it definitely will happen and I have been organizing it for a while...well, it hasn't taken place yet (scheduled for the week before Thanksgiving).</p>
<p>It's the EC I want to write about in my short answer. How do you think I should write about this to make it believable that it is actually happening and not just some "well, I'll get around to it" thing?</p>
<p>Only if you continue with it in high school then you might be able say, I play piano for 12 years, won the Most Fabulous Player of the year - year XX.</p>
<p>^ I agree. it would be acceptable if it reinforced an EC you did throughout high school.</p>
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It's the EC I want to write about in my short answer. How do you think I should write about this to make it believable that it is actually happening and not just some "well, I'll get around to it" thing?
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Is this regarding the short answer of the common application? Wait until this even happens first. You can write in december, otherwise, this would be an exercise in creative writing.</p>
<p>You can talk about the work you have done organizing the fundraiser and state how much you have learned already and how much you look forward to the final result.</p>