The club would enhance what I already have on my application and certainly fits with the “image” I am trying to portray. It is a pet an animal welfare society, and I previously started a Meatless Mondays vegetarian/vegan awareness project at my school, as well as been a part of our school’s Environmental Club. Would information about my initiation of such a club be worth uploading as supplementary material to all of the universities I am applying to? Thanks in advance.
Starting a club will not enhance your application. Since you just started it, it hasn’t done anything yet. It would likely look like you started it for your application. That could be viewed as a negative.
I’m going to disagree. While I don’t know for sure that it will help, it certainly won’t hurt. My D started a club and worked it into her essay. When she had an interview, it was a topic that the interviewer spent some time on. While I’m sure that it isn’t the only thing that got her in, starting a club shows initiative, student engagement, leadership, the ability to work with the administration, etc. Schools want students who will contribute to their community, and starting a club shows that you will likely be an engaged community member.
I can’t imagine that starting a club that has no notable achievements to date will move the needle on any college admission decision. But it is entirely up to you to decide if you want to update colleges.
Wow, this is confusing. It looks like there are literally hundreds of animal organizations whose name makes the acronym “PAWS”: https://www.paws.org/about/paws/others/
Anyway, what does your PAWS/PAAWS do? When you say “welfare society”, do you mean like an animal shelter?
I question the sustainability of a club whose founder has about three months remaining in high school. It is great to care about animals, but unless you started the club with 30+ non-senior members, I think AOs might wonder the same thing. Therefore, I would not send a special email for that.
Later on, if you find yourself waitlisted and need to write a LOCI, you might mention it there.
What will happen to animal welfare when you graduate? Maybe the colleges will think you need to stick close to home to keep your club going.
Oops, I missed the fact that your applications were already in. Then no, I don’t think it’s a good idea to amend the apps with this.
This was a college student:
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No. This is not notable enough to include. At this point, with all your apps in, it will sound like a desperate attempt.
Hi, the club I am starting certainly does not have over 30 members but it does have 12 sophomores, 3 juniors, and 2 other seniors in confirmed attendance and counting. The club was actually founded with a primary goal of sustaining my Meatless Mondays project, in terms of keeping its message alive at school. It has three guest speakers lined up already to speak about various topics, from animal welfare in shelters to how to cook a nutritionally balanced vegan meal. I guess on paper my club pales in comparison to what I feel I’ve done to get it started. I was hoping this club would answer the question college admissions officers may have regarding my Meatless Mondays venture: “how will you sustain THAT?”
I absolutely see your point though and that’s why I’m still weary to update this to all my colleges, despite how I feel about my club. Perhaps this additional information I’ve provided will offer you more insight into why I am not completely rejecting the idea of uploading this as supplementary material. If you still strongly think it is definitely not notable enough to include, please let me know why as it is definitely less work for me. Thank you all so much for your input thus far.
If you were to mention this, it might be more along the lines of how you are explaining it here (minus the “image” part) where you are continuing to build on your previous organizing activities to promote veganism. The latest effort really does seem to be about “social change” and not so much about “animal welfare”, as such. At least there doesn’t seem to be any actual animals involved, which is a plus in my mind.
iI think that admissions officers are looking for a few things when admitting people:
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Will the student succeed academically? THey look at your GPA/ courses/SAT for that.
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What Will the student add to our community? You have already shown leadership on the meatless mondays. You have shown environmental/health awareness. Now you are showing more leadership…
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But if you do report it, you want to talk about what you have accomplished and how will this club be sustained next year.
Of course colleges will view this as a long-standing and significant committment on your part. The only thing you haven’t done right is start two clubs 