<p>Does starting a club show as much leadership as being a leader of one or do colleges look at it differently? What has been your experience?</p>
<p>Oh no you don’t! (picks board up, punts it back to the top)</p>
<p>Not alot. Starting a club is at the bottom of the leadership hierarchy.</p>
<p>No. 10char</p>
<p>Seriously?</p>
<p>If you’re doing something just to impress, the tailoring will probably be noticeable. Better yet is to find something that challenges and excites you and follow that path.</p>
<p>I have a passion for acting and compete in this acting competition every year. I wanted to start a team to compete in it. I just wanted to see how much that would help me in the college process.</p>
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<p>It depends on what you do, and what you do with it. Starting a club is no big deal. Starting a club and working hard to make is successful and worthwhile for the people in it, is more notable. And, it’s nice if it connects in some way with other parts of your history.</p>
<p>For example, suppose you like poetry. Perhaps you start a literary magazine at your school. You solicit submissions, hold weekly meetings, fundraise like a fiend, and ultimately publish the first issue. The next year you help train the next generation of leaders so the club will continue after you have moved on. That might boost you a bit.</p>
<p>Essentially, that’s what it will be, but for acting. I just thought it would be a bigger deal than normal EC’s because you’re the one who put the time and effort in to start it.</p>
<p>If you do manage to get your club to compete, then hell yes.</p>
<p>IDK why people are saying no… really guys?</p>
<p>If it’s a club that runs for three years, with 30 kids competing each year, and I run it all 3 years, I think it will help.</p>
<p>If it lasts that long then there is no reason why people should say no.</p>
<p>It’ll help. Pursue what you want to do, for both resume purposes and for your own entertainment.</p>
<p>Sometimes I wonder how much it helps. Starting a club is nothing spectacular if you don’t do anything with it. I started a Unity and Social Sciences Club and a Debate Team during my freshman year of high school because there was a dire need (in my opinion) for some interesting things for people to join. We raised thousands of dollars and several of us traveled overseas and to local cities/towns for charity. We also organized fundraisers, events at school, etc. The Debate Team was a lot of fun, especially during the presidential election.</p>
<p>I’m in student gvmt at my school and i’m in charge of managing club affairs. What I’ve noticed is that 3/4ths of the clubs are stated pretty much just so people can be a president of a club, but they don’t actually hold any events, interact with the school community, etc. However, there are clubs where the president/officers/members commit a lot of time, organize MANY events each semester, and really make a positive difference in the community, and these are the clubs that are formed for an actual PURPOSE, not just for padding a resume. </p>
<p>If you will be the kind of president that is like the latter, then colleges will take notice and you will actually have inciteful, meaningful experiences to write about. If your club only meets once every three months, then you will have nothing to write/talk about and the colleges will see through your charade.</p>
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