<p>Is being your class's President/VP/Treasurer/etc. something that looks good to adcoms at top universities (HYP)? At my school it is just a popularity contest and once elected, the officers don't do anything.</p>
<p>It certainly can't hurt.</p>
<p>Of course, it also matters what they've done once elected.</p>
<p>The fact though that their elected shows they have the charisma/social skills to be elected, which is a vital vital skill in the business/job world, which colleges love.</p>
<p>normal club officers are just based upon an extremely small electorate which in most cases is less than 5% of the student class, and so being elected by the entire student class shows a more clear verdict on charisma. Of course, in all schools, class officers do nothing but sit in their own study hall room and mabye occasionally fundraise, but most colleges know that anyway.</p>
<p>thats my take on it anyway</p>
<p>^ that's a good point. I wouldn't say that it's something amazing though.</p>
<p>I agree with the OP. Being senior class president was probably the most worthless thing I had ever done, other than putting together a week-long trip to Denver, but I have to give the VP most of the credit there. He was a champion.</p>
<p>I was class president, and I did a lot of work as did the rest of my board. It depends on your school, obviously.</p>
<p>It is largely a popularity contest at my school, too, though. I won't lie about that...</p>
<p>"Of course, in all schools, class officers do nothing but sit in their own study hall room and mabye occasionally fundraise, but most colleges know that anyway."</p>
<p>I'm the incoming senior class president and I've probably put in 20+ hours of work so far. And school doesn't start for two weeks.</p>
<p>people always say "it's just a popularity contest" like it's a bad thing. being popular in high school shouldn't be shot down all over CC... it doesn't automatically mean your some ass-hole QB with half-a-monkey's-brain. i think college's should seriously consider being popular as a good thing, especially for "social" majors, like business where talking to people and getting them to like you is 75% of the job. just thoughts, i don't want to seem imflamatory, but just an opinion</p>
<p>^ I don't think anyone's saying that popularity is a bad thing. In fact, look at post # 4. I just don't see popularity as something that's as important as let's say winning a science competition or w/e.</p>
<p>It depends. For some years I notice that there have been some very attractive females as class officers. lol I wonder how they got the votes.</p>
<p>hehe they probably have really sore jaws...</p>
<p>i dunno, it depends what your thinking of majoring in.... a lot of professions out there are basically dealing with people constantly, I mean thats the direction the US economy is moving in, either hi-tech or hi-service areas.... so you might have two different applicants that really aren't comparable for their majors, one might win all the science awards and one might win all the "popularity" awards</p>
<p>HPY get tens of thousands of applications from people with such offices and even higher offices (like being governor of Boys or Girls State or president of a national student organization).</p>
<p>What makes student government officers stand out is when they have done more with their office than plan prom. For instance, I know someone who was SGA president of their high school, and managed to get all of the high schools in their town to contribute to building a Habitat for Humanity home. That's the kind of leadership that impresses top colleges.</p>
<p>And if the officers at your school don't do anything, that doesn't mean that if you're elected, you shouldn't do anything. HPYS and similar colleges want students who have exhibited true leadership, not taken the course of least resistance.</p>
<p>I suppose thats true....well next yaer I'm going to be my schools student member of the School Board along with Student Goverment Vice President, so I guess I better do something ^_^</p>