<p>If you do an activity for only 1 or 2 years, is that considered “commitment”? And if you do an activity for the first 2 years, skip 3rd year, and come back to it 4th year, is that “commitment”?</p>
<p>Ideally you’d do all your activities all four years, but most freshmen don’t have enough perspective to know exactly what stuff they should do right away, so you should just put down whatever ECs you have and hope for the best. There’s nothing wrong with starting new stuff throughout high school as long as it doesn’t look like you’re just doing it for college. (And if you’re not just doing it for college, it probably won’t look like you are.)</p>
<p>Only you can define “commitment”</p>