<p>I might just be paranoid, but I’m really worried about my whole situation. </p>
<p>For sophomore year, I didn’t really participate in any ECs since I had depression - diagnosed with clinical depression. </p>
<p>Junior year, which I just finished, I participated in most of the ECs I quit. </p>
<p>How am I supposed to have that 1 year hiatus be explained? I mean, yes, the school ECs can be explained by my GC or teachers. But it’s not like they would know about my really outside of school ECs - that would just be creepy. </p>
<p>For example, most people don’t know I play cello. I was in a youth orchestra and took private lessons freshman year and a bit earlier, but then I quit sophomore year. I haven’t been able to restart youth orchestra nor private lessons so there’s really no way to show that I restarted. </p>
<p>I would really like to explain this hiatus because otherwise it seems I was just lazy and also that I didn’t recover - a big no-no for colleges.</p>
<p>your GC should be able to explain your depression in your letter of rec. but I’m a bit confused. did you participate in your ECs during junior year?</p>
<p>Okay but can I get my counselor to talk about things she doesn’t really know about? Like she doesn’t know about how I play cello and restarted practicing this year.</p>
<p>your counselor shouldn’t be explaining every EC individually. she should generally state somewhere in the rec that you were diagnosed with depression sophomore year, explaining your lack of ECs, and have since overcome it</p>
<p>^ Agreed. Your GC will like write something like “qcat was battling depression sophomore year, and as such, she could not participate in extracurricular activites.”</p>
<p>It’ll be a nice blanket statement like that.</p>