<p>Just something I've been thinking about. Since clubs vary from school to school, can colleges be consistant in comparing students based on leadership/involvement in clubs?</p>
<p>I mean, browsing over the chances thread you sometimes (often) see people who are officers of 4-5 clubs. But at my school, that's essentially impossible. Club meetings are held at lunch. Thus the most you can do is...be officer of two clubs and member of one other (2 officer meetings + 3 club meetings). Yes, a few clubs meet during brunch and a few after school, but for the most part nobody is officer of more than 3 clubs...not because our school doesn't let them, but simply because they can't because there's not enough time. </p>
<p>As for say, being president of a club, in our school it means a heck of a lot of time and dedication. I don't know anybody who is president of more than one club at our school.</p>
<p>With grades and classes and whatnot, the gc will update the colleges on whether or not they've taken a demanding courseload or made the best of their resources. There's also class rank and such. But with clubs/school involvement, colleges don't see how schools compare with one another.</p>
<p>It just seems a tad inconsistant at times. Thoughts?</p>
<p>Very true. Also, isn't being the captain of a team or the president of a club more impressive if you're in a class of 800 as opposed to a class of 90...being president of a club/team of 40 kids or a club of 10 kids?</p>
<p>not neccessarily. a good example is class president - its basically a popularity contest at most schools, and the winners most of the time aren't even good leaders.</p>
<p>as long as they see leadership and commitment to one type of activity, they will be happy.</p>
<p>e.g.: if you are the president of an environmentalist club, volunteered a lot at wildlife organizations, and raised money in your community to save some endangered frog, that will be better than being a 'member' at 5 different clubs at your school.</p>
<p>pick a couple things and stick with them --- colleges want to see that you can stick to something of interest to you and pursue it in a rigorous manner.</p>
<p>I feel the same way-the old school I went to had EXCELLENT after school-meetings 1 1/2 hours each week, officers really had to plan, impossible to be in more than 5 a week and sports were 2 1/2 hours EACH DAY mon-friday</p>
<p>my new school: i'm in 8 clubs, and if I wasn't in the 8th, then I would go home everyday. The clubs meet barely 5 times a year, and officers don't show up. Sports players complain about a 2 hour practice on a tuesday. usually 1 hour practice mon, tue, wed! ridiculous!</p>
<p>wow..My D's school has very intensive clubs and teams. the kids are expected to attend weekly or several times per week, and some clubs, like the drama club, require more like 10--15 hours per week. The result of this is that kids must pick and choose carefully; committing to one club puts them out of commission for other ones. My D has only been able to be in 2 clubs at once, and that is with a great deal of time sharing. Last year she was kicked out of one choir-related club for going to too many practices for another club, even though she had told the teacher of the choir club beforehand that this scheduling conflict existed. I wonder how kids manage more than 2 involvements...I don't get it. There are lots of boys on sports teams in our town who are also in honors and AP classes. They practice until 6 or 7pm each day, then go home and try to keep up with academics. I give these kids credit. It's tiring just to think about it.</p>
<p>It's just that clubs vary so much from school to school...so, say, if you had two candidates:</p>
<p>Person A:
President of Club
Member of Two other clubs</p>
<p>Person B:
President of three clubs
Member of five other clubs</p>
<p>How could you tell who works harder? What if Person B's school is like Anon's and requires barely any time (2-3 hours per week) while Person A's clubs require 10-15 hours per week?</p>