I am in varsity golf and I won 3 awards such as coaches award, varsity award, and scholar athlete award.
I am in 3 different clubs in school and I have a lot of volunteering (will have at least 200 hours).
Since I am planning to become a doctor, I have volunteering in all the right places like hospitals and I have all my science activities covered.
My problem is leadership positions. How important is that? I only have the Bake Sale/Event Coordinator position at Ecology Club. That is the lowest level position in my club and the teacher basically gave it to me out of pity because I put in the most hours and effort in the club but all the other spots were filled.
Is that good? Is that enough? I am worried about the whole leadership thing because a lot people have multiple officer and president positions and I barely have one.
Describe the unofficial leadership you do. Anytime you step up and get the job done while others wait for something to happen is leadership, even if the job title isn’t president.
For example: My daughter is not an officer of the dance club, but she did volunteer to be a choreographer. This required adapting a routine to ability levels of all participants, signing up for rehearsal times in coordination with others’ work schedules, handling costume issues, cutting the music, meeting with theatre tech team to go over a lighting plan, etc. A lot of work goes into a 3 minute piece for 10 people when you write it all down.
How do you make the activities where you are not president better for everyone? All you need is a two sentence essay about that in the activity section to show that you do more than just show up to a meeting once a month.
It sort of depends upon where you want to attend.
For most US high school students, their local state flagship public university is very good for premed (and many other subjects) and economical (allowing saving $$ or at least avoiding debt to make medical or graduate school more practical). If your grades are good then in many cases you are “in”, and the additional fussing about ECs and leadership that we like to do on CC is not relevant. Details may depend upon what state you live in.
For the most selective “prestige” schools, then getting in is a long shot for almost anyone. Having a long term commitment to a small number of ECs shows the ability to stick with something that you care about. Whether this is what they want is hard for me to guess.
I talked to several admissions reps at a national college fair while dd was looking around. They are not strictly looking for leadership as in titles though they know many kids do that for leadership. They said they like activities that show leadership outside of school. For example my daughter volunteers at our local public access tv station and occasionally they pay her to teach a youth class. While it doesn’t have a title like president it shows leadership to admissions.