<p>I'm a junior in high school and I tutor kids at the elementary school. Their after school program is only gonna last 3 more weeks, I was thinking about starting my own club there to help kids with homework and have fun activities for them too. I asked one of the teachers there and she said I would need to talk to the principal. Would that be a good EC to have? Many people have told me to start my own club, but I assumed they meant start a new club at my high school. Would starting a club at the elementary school have less value? </p>
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<p>What’s important is to invest yourself into something that you can write about and sell yourself with. I think this would be a great EC to have if you can demonstrate an investment which I’m sure you can. </p>
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Thank you so much for your input 
Can you clarify on what you mean by"demonstrate an investment"?</p>
<p>I believe, perhaps strangely, that ECs outside the confines of one’s high school are much more noteworthy. Do it if possible. </p>
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<p>Read How to be a High School Superstar for inspiration regarding your question. </p>
<p>For one thing, do not refer to it as “my own club” - that pretty much infers the reason that you started it was to serve yourself. Develop ideas that will help the club to exist after you are gone, perhaps by recruiting high school students (maybe from service clubs that already exist) to help plan and run the club.</p>
<p>@KKMama: Well that’s the rub. The fact is most “club founders” are interested in the narrow (resume fodder) and not the broader concept of why the club should exist. My head would spin if someone truthfully said: “Sophomore year, I joined Emily’s club. She founded it and was about to graduate. The goals were fantastic and I wanted to take the reins off of her hands. Junior year, I became its second president. We did X Y and Z for those two years. Now I’m ready to hand off the group to another set of enthused officers”</p>