<p>I was fortunately just voted to be our class president next year. I have excellent grades, sports, stats ect. I really didn't think about the ramifications till now but how much does being class president strengthen my chances (or not really) to highly selective colleges? Thank you.</p>
<p>It’s mostly a popularity contest. Not anything bad but not as impressive as a super letter of recommendation. It’s mostly “meh” to colleges.</p>
<p>Congrats though. Have fun with it!</p>
<p>It may depend on the school; at ours its probably a 6-8 hour/week EC with many responsibilities, including running the student council meetings, representing the other students and communicating with the administration, meeting with other school presidents in the area, speaking at public events, etc., but at other schools it may not be much of anything. If its not much of anything at your school, then that is something you can change during your term. Colleges will want to hear what you did and how you effected change, not just the title of the position.</p>
<p>Class president (as in junior class pres) or student body president? Student boy pres usually has a significant amount of responsibilities. At our HS this person was encouraged to have a free period to devote to it. D1 went to high rated LAC and alumni who interviewed her told her they have a score sheet and high scores go to Student body pres, newspaper or yearbook editor, etc where there really is good leadership. I guess it depends on HS as to whether or not it is just popularity but our Pres. really put in hours and our student gov as whole won lots of awards at state conventions.</p>
<p>I didn’t notice the class president in post; that is probably very different than student body president, as scmom12 points out.</p>