<p>Interest/Get on good side of teacher</p>
<p>Well… I always wanted a math club… it just started. happily it’s on fridays, and it’s probably my favorite club.</p>
<p>I don’t join clubs. 
Then again, it would be pretty hard to do because I’ve changed high schools twice, and a lot of my interests are often not supported by the clubs offered.</p>
<p>Out of interest, college wasn’t even a concern early in high school. In my freshman year, I joined ModelUN because there was a senior boy from Biology that I liked. BUT…as the weeks went by, I learned I really liked researching intl affairs and public speaking. Then there was a volunteer club, where I just tagged along during a canned food drive, and became more involved.</p>
<p>Ive noticed in most of my ECs that people are only involved because of college. There are a few that seem to genuinely like them though.</p>
<p>Hooray, some people on CC are in MUN! 
-high fives CC MUNnies-</p>
<p>I never really thought about my clubs looking good for college, to be honest. I just joined what I loved to do.</p>
<p>MUN I joined initially because I liked to debate, but now I’ve become really good friends with everyone in the club 
All the more reason to stay in it!
Jazz Band: I joined the lower band to stay active in playing my alto sax while playing oboe in band. I switched to the upper band in spring because the conductor was in desperate need of another saxophonist and I was first chair in the lower band.
Musical (pit orchestra) I joined because I wanted to, and I ended up loving it!
Swim, I joined this year (sophomore year) because I wanted to do a sport. Yeah… not my thing… I may quit.
I kind of got forced by a friend into my youth group, and I like it We’re actually a very active group.
And finally, I tried to do after school tutoring for a while… nobody wanted help from a freshman =P So that was a dud.</p>
<p>But in none of those did I ever consider a college’s view of me (with the exception of swim, which I considered very lightly.)</p>
<p>I think a lot of service clubs attract people who are just in it for college. They mostly advertise projects with “opportunity to get X hours!!!” instead of, you know, what the project actually is. Of course there are some who are genuinely passionate about it, but it’s hard to sort out. </p>
<p>For me, college was an impetus to join things I was interested in but might not have joined otherwise because of nervousness. It was an extra incentive to challenge myself in freshman and sophomore years in ways that I expected to enjoy and ended up enjoying. It hasn’t led to me to do anything I regret yet.</p>
<p>I joined a club/forum [Gay-Straight Alliance] because someone recruited me and I thought it’d be something to show for colleges. It was actually a pretty good choice–I’ve become a lot more conscious of how people are treated, in general, regardless of sexual orientation. My school’s rather open [we have more gay guys than straight, and it’s disheartening] but I do find myself noticing things, mostly on the Internet, that bother me, and I try to work it out or call attention to it. I don’t really consider myself activist; I hate conflict, hate arguing with people, but I like nice, open discussions. -grabs snack and blanket-</p>
<p>MUNNIES.</p>
<p>God that club is awesome. Our conferences are funny. We nuked Gabon my last conference.</p>
<p>Probably for college. 1 I am interested in but others I just go and like do HW or talk to people.</p>
<p>Interest. Why else would I join the scrabble club?</p>
<p>I join clubs purely out of interest. The one exceptions will probably be that I’m likely to join National Honor Society and National English Honor Society next year. (NEHS meets twice throughout the entire year and NHS is basically college app. filler in itself, so why not?)
I honestly can’t stand the “Chance” threads because I know wholeheartedly that the students did not join most of their clubs out of interest. Its appalling to know just how many hours of their lives people are willing to waste to go to some top school for four to ten years only to earn the same amount of money and dignity as someone in the same profession who went to a mediocre school.</p>
<p>Wow, my thread got featured!? :o I’m amused.</p>
<p>And this year, that club is filled with a bunch of eager freshmen. At least they’re honest?</p>
<p>The other day I heard two guys talking about how they went to stage crew once. On their college apps, they said that they had done stage crew for TWO YEARS! I can’t stand it when people lie about their extracurriculars on applications. UGH!</p>
<p>I’ve joined clubs for both reasons. However, I eventually quit the ones I joined for college after I came to this site. I then realized how worthless joining clubs actually is.</p>
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Well better clubs than nothing. Especially for “lesser” schools.</p>
<p>I joined clubs for college because clubs at my school (and I would think most schools) don’t really do much. And if they do, it’s sort of meaningless this and that.</p>
<p>At first I joined a plethora of clubs, but by senior year I’ve trimmed some of the ones off that don’t really interest me, and I didn’t even include but three on my common app. </p>
<p>I’m planning to do some cool things with the club of which I am the president, though.</p>
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<p>While reading the short auto-bio snippets from scholarship winners from my school, I was disappointed to see that the students blatantly embellished their qualifications. But what can I do? They’re graduates and they got away with the lies?</p>
<p>I don’t want the bad karma of ratting them out, so I pretend not be be irritated by their past choices.</p>
<p>Well, I’m still in middle school, but I’ve actually started looking into clubs for high school. I think that looking good for college is why I want to start being involved in more clubs, but the clubs I’m choosing are ones that I’m interested in, but wouldn’t go to without college as a motivation. </p>
<p>And I did have a situation like the one you described, with my girl scout troop. The troop leader only keeps the troop together for her daughter’s college application, but I really want to actually do something with it. We spend the whole time partying and eating free food, but I am so annoyed because all of the other troops are earning their gold award while we sit around eating cupcakes. Seriously…</p>
<p>Why would anyone join clubs just for a college application? Mind-boggling.</p>
<p>I’ve only joined two clubs this year (my junior year), and I joined zero clubs in all the years before. Of those two clubs, one is the anime club. That’s not particularly interesting to an admissions officer, but it allows me to spend 0.5-1 hour per week with people who are engaged with anime and watching anime, which is pretty cool. The other is the math club, which obviously relates to one of my primary interests (math competitions).</p>