<p>It is important to be active in your school, whether it is participating on a sports team or even writing for your school newspaper. I was wondering if joining "too many" clubs will look bad on your college application. For instance, if you are on 4-5 various clubs in your school that include mock trial, debate team, writer for your school newspaper, speech club, will this benefit or hurt your application?</p>
<p>Also, how important is it for you to be your Student Body Class President? Do admission officers really take that into consideration?</p>
<p>It is important to be involved in clubs. The more the better obviously, but it is also way more important that you started these early in high school (freshman-sophomore year). They like to see commitment in your activities. It is nice to be the class president, not sure exactly how much that will help though.</p>
<p>“The more the better obviously”</p>
<p>^Couldnt be further from the truth. Like traditional CC wisdom, it is the depth of your involvement that matters, not breadth. Quality over quantity. </p>
<p>But like agentunderfire noted, long-term commitment is the best way to go. The most important thing should be your contributions to the club, not the positions you held (although that is optimal). </p>
<p>Depending on the seriousness of ASB Council at your school, being class president may or may not be as important as you think. Like I mentioned earlier, what matters is what you did in that position and how you influenced the student body or the school with your leadership position. On another note, I think it’s interesting to add that many adcoms will recognize ASB Officer elections as a general popularity contest. Thus, being an officer is not a great accomplishment in itself. Rather, you should seek to improve and impact the school with new policies, etc in your position as class president.</p>
<p>I want to add that the clubs you listed (speech, journalism, debate, mock trial) are all communications-related ECs. If you can sell yourself as a passionate debater/speaker/writer, these activities could definitely atest to your ability to communicate effectively-- an asset that is highly valued in any work position. </p>
<p>So in short, the list of the clubs you provided are not necessarily scattered.</p>
<p>“how important is it for you to be your Student Body Class President?”
Passive Student Body President < Active Student Body member < Active Student Body President</p>
<p>Holding a leadership position will never hurt you.</p>