<p>For example: What if you played tennis for fun for 5 years, played piano for 6 years, and wrote original songs on piano (not professionally of course). It seems to me that colleges just want to know how you’ve excelled in activities you have participated in, rather than that you just do them.</p>
<p>You should put those down too.</p>
<p>Colleges dont want us to be just good academically. I guess they want to see how much we are involved in social activities</p>
<p>Yepp, those matter!</p>
<p>Those would count as extracurricular activities.</p>