To what degree can we exaggerate our extracirriculars?

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Is there someplace else on the app that you can put it?

@austinmshauri: Colleges do not care what you did prior to high school – on the Common Application there’s not even a checkbox for applicants to select anything below 9th grade. The only way you could let colleges know you did something in middle school and elementary school, as well as high school, is in the short description of that activity. See: <a href=“https://appsupport.commonapp.org/link/portal/33011/33013/Article/1057/Participation-grade-levels”>https://appsupport.commonapp.org/link/portal/33011/33013/Article/1057/Participation-grade-levels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Also, FWIW, see: <a href=“Too Much Room to List Extracurricular Activities? - The New York Times”>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/education/07choice-t.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;