<p>I've been roaming around in the 'chance me' category for half a day now, and I've been giving people my honest opinions but what caught my eye is the fact that just about every student going for ivy bound/prestigious schools, are President of this club, and VP of this other club, and a member for four years of this club, and then FOUNDERS of a few clubs.</p>
<p>How easy is it for /you/ personally at /your/ high school to create a new club? I'm not saying I have anything against it, but these club things vary school to school. At certain schools it takes massive effort to try and start up a new club, from getting sponsors, to gathering members, getting the correct amount of members, etc. At other schools it seems simple, some teachers just have to sign something and at least a few people have to show up, and VOILA, you got yourself a position as /FOUNDER/ of a club. </p>
<p>So how do you feel about this topic and is it something good(prestigious/ivy) schools all look for?</p>
<p>Organizing a new club at my school is pretty easy. My friend and I are creating a World Politics club and we found our teacher advisor quickly and then announced a survey regarding interest in the club and 78 people signed up to be notified of club meetings in the new school year. Chances are that some of these people won’t show up, but, some will and some is just enough. My friend created the club constitution and turned it in and there you got it, the club is officially a ‘’club’’ and I’m officially a ‘’co-founder.’’ I assume that creating a club at a smaller school would be much more difficult than it was for us. Our school has 1700 students so we had a lot of people who could possibly be interested. </p>
<p>I think good schools just look for extracurricular activities, they want people who will add something to their school community. Ivy Leagues have plenty of ‘‘smart’’ applicants, what they want are smart AND social applicants. That’s just my opinion though.</p>
<p>At my old highschool, easiest thing ever. All you needed was a sponsor.</p>
<p>We had a series of clubs pop up from seniors being bored. One was GCC: Golf Club Club. They didn’t golf and claimed to be a gentlemen’s club. It was pretty amusing, but show how anything goes for my school.</p>
<p>Super easy. You need to write a mission, have a sponsor and 5 students willing to join.</p>
<p>I think it’s fairly difficult because it’s basically impossible to get people to join anything at my school. In all three years I’ve been there the only thing that’s been founded is an anti-bullying club (even though I’m pretty sure no one at my school is ambitious enough to bully anyone).</p>
<p>It’s extremely easy at my school. You just need to fill out a waiver and get your faculty advisor to sign the form, and answer some questions on it saying the purpose of the club etc. Then the principal approves it and you’re golden.</p>
<p>We have to send a fancy proposal to the Board of Education. It must include the club name, purpose, adviser, meeting times, and number of students. </p>
<p>Its very serious at my school because I think some law requires the adviser to be compensated. So the Board must decide if it’s worth paying a teacher a stipend for the club. </p>
<p>One friend of mine had a SUPER easy time making a club and getting money for it, even though he had ONLY FIVE kids in it. ONLY FIVE. Why? Because it was a Gay-Straight Alliance, and the Board didn’t want no legal trouble.</p>
<p>Not that easy. You must set an appointment with a dean or principle. Then you must meet the requirements such as 15 or more members at all times. You must find a teacher to be the sponsor for free for a year and then get approval from the board to give him/her a stipend after a successfull pilot year (test run year). You create a club constitution and get it approved along with a website. If you want to set requirements to join then those are put in the constitutioon and there are no exceptions. Other requirements include meeting held atleast once a month and on school property with the sponsor present that do not conflict with school events (such as school plays, football games, or during the school day). I had the idea of starting a club and intergrating a club I’m already in with the school. Both have not been approved. Unfortuant :(</p>
<p>Bumping up the post!</p>
<p>Me and my friend just started a club for the upcoming school year, the sweatervest club. We both wore sweatervests one day and decided to start a club. He’s the prez. I’m the vp.</p>
<p>To start a club here you must:
-get 10 members (no prob, we got like 30+ so far)
-get an advisor (we had 3 teachers fighting to be our advisor)
-get it approved by the USB student gov (won’t be a prob considering I’m student body vp)
-write a mission statement (“allow students to dress professionally in a social environment.”)</p>
<p>So yeah our club is starting to become a very popular thing on campus. We’re likely to get 50 members. The purpose of the club is actually more of a social campus club, but were just having a hangout once a month to encourage sociability and everyone is required to wear a sweatervest there.</p>
<p>Extremely easy. All we do is get a sponsor, 5+ members, and meet at least once a month. There also has to be an end goal (a competition or something of the sort)</p>
<p>I’m going to hone my League of Legends skills and start a club in a year or two.</p>
<p>I’m also thinking of founding a video game club.</p>