<p>I know this number is dependent on a lot of different things, but what do you think is a good number of officer positions to have in high school to look like you are involved in ECs?</p>
<p>None. You don’t even have to do your ECs at school to begin with. If you’re going to be in a club, though, it’s best if you end up with a leadership position at some point. </p>
<p>2 or 3. Anything more than that and you aren’t doing any of them well enough for them to matter. I often suggest students to focus on 2 or 3 ECs that they REALLY care about and when applying to a college explain all that you were able to accomplish in that club. For example, saying that you were able to organize your school’s first MUN conference in the MUN Club, and organized a recycling collection drive that managed to recycle X amount of plastic bottles in the Environmental Club is much more effective than just saying you were part of the Drama, Physics, Computer Science, English and Art clubs.
Colleges get to see much more of your dedication towards clubs when you focus your EC’s than if you just have a laundry list of all the clubs at your school.
Of course you should never limit yourself if you want to take part in many activities, but officer positions should stay around 2 or 3 in my opinion</p>
<p>Leadership positions help if you have everything else going for you… - our graduating class has a girl who has multiple leadership positions in school wide, city wide, and state wide organizations and clubs - her “Activities” section of the Common App looks like it was ripped right out of a HYPSM admit’s application - however, her abysmal SAT and GPA left her with a plethora of rejections and only an acceptance to UMass… Similarly, our HYP admit from our school was Treasurer of one club. That was his only conventional “leadership position.” </p>
<p>Enough to balance schoolwork/academics and actually doing something in the clubs.</p>