<p>I'm going to be a junior in high school and my first choice of college is Columbia University. When I was going through my list for extracurricular activities to start recording them, I realized that I have many leadership positions but am seriously starting to wonder if too much is bad. I didn't plan it this way. Here it is, and I'm serious when I say is too much bad?</p>
<p>President of Forensic Speech and Debate Team (10th and 11th grade)
Co-President of Science Olympiad (10th and 11th grade)
Treasurer of Mathletes (10th grade; possibly VP or President in 11th)
Secretary of Book Club (10th and 11th grade)
Treasurer of Interact Club (community service club) (10th and 11th grade)
Elected member of executive board of teen advisory board of south huntington public library (10th and 11th grade)
Sophomore class assistant --> appointed class officer (10th grade)
GSO (student body) corresponding secretary (11th grade --> thinking of dropping it)
Student Representative of School Board Management (10th grade; 11th grade --> thinking of dropping it)
Global Citizen Corps Leader (chosen nation wide) (10th and 11th grade)</p>
<p>I was thinking of dropping two of them thinking too much would be bad. School Board Management is honestly pretty boring, while GSO is fun yet time-consuming. I don't know. Do you guys possibly think I should continue with this b/c I really do luv doing all this stuff, or Columbia would think that I have no real commitment. In fact, I do attend most of the meetings for all of these clubs. I would SO appreciate any input!</p>
<p>You can do a lot of things, and still be committed to a few things. I would hate to think that there are people on this board quitting things they like, because they fear it makes them appear as fickle. Think more along the lines of having your many activities highlight your diversified interests</p>
<p>I always worry Im a officer of too many clubs too...im an officer in about 6 clubs, and expect to become president of prob 4 of em by senior year...just afraid colleges wont believe a person could be that stretched and still commited, even though some things like STudent Goverment is just fundraising and planning</p>
<p>That just looks like a laundry list of 2nd rate leadership positions. Not a single one of those is offered at my school. We have President of STUCO and athletic captains. In the sense that it looks like you joined a lot of unattached clubs just for the heck of it, yes it is bad. All the positions look phony, like they just started awarding various leadership roles. You must go to a competitive HS? You know what I mean?</p>
<p>I think it really depends on how much time you spend in each of your leadership positions. How much time do you spend as Secretary of...Book Club, versus President of Forensics? Going by the intensity of the debate team at my school and what I've heard about forensics in other schools, I'm betting that you're pretty involved and very committed</p>
<p>I would try to cut the positions down this year....prioritize the clubs you really wanna be involved in & spend more time in those instead of having a bunch of leadership positions that don't take up too much time. Colleges will take a laundry list of leadership positions as someone trying too hard to look good</p>
<p>Priotize the clubs you can have a chance of becoming a higher position, since being secretary of a club 1.) doesnt look nice 2.) 'usually' doesnt involve as much work as a higher club</p>
<p>I have a similar questions. I have a few leadership positions already. However, I was recently selected to be editior-in-chief of the yearbook. I have never done yearbook before, so I will only have done it for one year, during which I would have been the editor. It is because the yearbook advisor usually selects ediotrs due to their responsibility and organization rather than previous expereice and creative ability. Will this look bad on my application and look fake. It really is an intensive and hard job, but I have been thinking about not even including it because it looks random?</p>
<p>I had the exact situation with my yearbook, ran into no problems at hopkins. I guess it depends on how much back story you give, still, it shows talent and commitment...</p>
<p>Do college prefer certain leadership positions over others? For example, is there a difference between being president of science club versus being captain of cheerleading?</p>
<p>Yeah that's a lot there. It's also obvious that you probably don't do crap for those leadership positions. You probably just have the right friends. Therefore colleges will see that isn't legit.</p>
<p>Lol I founded 4 clubs and I'm president of all 4. I've done about 800 hours of community service... Yes of course too much is bad. They only have about 6 lines for Ec's... don't put any of those clubs down... Clubs are kinda bs. Put sports...music... talents. any Joe can be a leader in a club.</p>
<p>if you are planning to drop some (which you probably should just so that you could be more concentrated in a few areas) drop the ones that don't really pertain to what you want to pursue in college. I would also advise keeping the student board representative as that looks really prestigious.</p>
<p>I founded 3 clubs and Im president of all 3, 2 are occasional things (community service and engineering club) while one is my "magnum opus" sortof (Young Democrats) other than that I have scattered leadership positions, but as im doing, dont put em down if they arent at least high up OR Meaningful. If you do little work as a secretary theres no point in wasting valuble common-app room.</p>
<p>Thanks. I'm thinking of sticking to school board management and dropping as secretary of book club. I'll remain Treasurer of Interact Club as nobody else seems to want to take responsiblilty of a lot of money, but probably will end up not mentioning it. And should I stick to being a student council officer even though it's so time consuming and not really that much fun now that I think of it?</p>