<p>Hello. How do you start your own club in high school? I've heard the admissions officers will fall in love with you if you do this. Has anyone done this? What's required?</p>
<p>I've never done this, but at my school, I think you have to find a teacher to sponsor it and then suggest it to the principal.</p>
<p>lol, for one reason or another, i think starting a club not-so-genuinely is a bad idea. admission officers seek depth, not breadth.</p>
<p>I started one and was a charter member of another in my Junior year. My club failed due to lack of members, but I'm president of the other one now and its a really big success. At my school you just need to fill out an application and get an adviser from the faculty.</p>
<p>At my school you just have to fill out something about the purpose of the club and get 15 students and three teachers to sign it, plus get someone to agree to sponsor. It's really easy, except administration takes forever to approve it.</p>
<p>I've started one so far (Biological Research Club), my friend's started another, and now I'm trying to start an Olympiad Team but administration's put it on the bottom of their pile.</p>
<p>It's a myth that admissions officers will "fall in love" with students who start clubs. </p>
<p>First -- only at the most competitive colleges -- places like HPYS do ECs play big roles in admissions. That's because such colleges have such an overabundance of high stat applicants that the colleges can afford to select from that pool students who'll most contribute to a diverse college environment including supporting a variety of EC activities on campus.</p>
<p>Second -- top colleges are most impressed by students who show a longterm passion and talent for some kind of ECs. Depth, not breadth is important. Impact, awards, honors, etc. are important.</p>
<p>Many clubs that students start are clubs in name only -- things started only because the students wanted resume dressing. That's what it sounds like you are trying to do, and that will not impress adcoms.</p>
<p>If you wanted to start a club out of genuine interest, you wouldn't have posted asking the question that you asked.</p>