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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anything a kid does before 9th grade matter?  Can you list it on your college applications?

Obviously if you have served in a church choir since you were 5, you can put that on your resume and state when you began, but a week of community service (church sponsored) during 8th grade or being on the debate team - does it have a place on a college application?  Again, if you won the science fair in 7th, or a national essay contest maybe.  But run of the mill community service or student leadership?

I am having a dispute with dh about this.  In my day, unless your college essay was about something in your early years that changed your life and involved an extra curric (working at Martha's table making you realize that the ground is not an even playing field), your extra currics pre 9th grade did not matter and there was not even a place to list them on the applications.

Could you all who are farther down the line let us know?

Thanks in advance[/quote]

The things that will play a role in our DCs college application that happened prior to 9th grade.
1) Spanish classes taken in MS are HS level classes the grades and credit follow DC to HS.
2) The math classes, Algebra Honors and Geometry Honors classes are HS classes DC took in MS and those grades will also follow DC to HS.
3) The Scouting stuff both DCs did prior to 9th grade count toward Eagle which eldest DC got as a sophomore, and younger will probably also get as a sophomore (ask me in a year).
4) The Musical instrument lessons and orchestras and practices that added up so that DC could make DHO freshman and sophomore years (too early for Junior year).
5) Younger has been "reffing" sports games since 8th grade.  So he will include that as his start year when showing how long he has be a referee.

Things like that.[/quote]

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