<p>Don’t lie, not just because you have a conscience and will feel bad about it, but because of the long-term anxiety about whether even a seemingly trivial lie on an application will come back and bite you. </p>
<p>Your GC should be able to say that you rebounded wonderfully from the fully resolved health issues you dealt with gracefully soph year and that you were able to participate actively in XYZ activities starting in junior year. If one or two of those activities coincide with interests you’ve had for a very long time (for example, if you’d been in school plays throughout middle school but then had to stop in 9th and 10th grade, but started again when you were feeling better), you might want to just allude to the longer term involvement somewhere in your college ap, and to be sure your GC knows about it also.</p>