<p>I need a couple people to join, and a professor to advise the club, but otherwise what should I do with my club? I'm really nervous because this is the first club I've ever started. Also, it is an association of asian students, does that sound like a substantial club? I don't want adcoms to think my club is just bs. In addition, my club is open to all students even if they're not asian, but does it sound race to only target one group of people? Een though there is an arab group, and a latin american group at my school.</p>
<p>I don’t think it sounds targeted to a certain group. You’d have to find out the policies on establishing a group from your school. The guidance counselor may know that information. Colleges and universities have groups like these, that are open to anyone, and to my knowledge, they plan activities that anyone, regardless of ethnic background, can participate in, so that others can learn about the particular culture represented by the student club.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what you mean when you ask what you should do with the club. Are you asking for advice on what kinds of activities to plan?</p>
<p>yea Iam asking advice on what activities to plan.</p>
<p>How about a heritage club?
My daughter started a marine biology club when she was in high school- with the purpose of going to the Galapagos.
Even though she was nervous and shy, she had it going pretty well, had a teacher as advisor and have gotten a lot of interest through word of mouth and flyers- however she was a senior, and it wasn’t quite enough time to get funding/raise money for the trip.</p>
<p>What you do is up to your club.
Some activities would be to host a dinner- sharing ethnic dishes- perhaps reaching out to adult groups or organizations in the community, interviewing elders or inviting them to your activities…
I am sure you have some ideas already- what makes you interested in joining a club like that?</p>
<p>I feel like you are starting about this backwards. Forgive me if I’m reading you all wrong, but I get the feeling you want to start a club in order to be able to say you started a club. To me you should want to do x, and in order to do x you need to start a club. x could be a literary magazine, a book discussion, an ethnic food eating event, participate in math contests or whatever. </p>
<p>However, if you want to have a club for a particular ethnicity just because every other ethnicity has one, why don’t you ask members of those clubs what they have found to be the most fun or most worthwhile activities?</p>
<p>The club sounds BS because you don’t even know what you want to do with it. Consequently, it sounds like something you’re starting to impress admissions officers. Students who are serious about starting clubs – who are starting clubs out of a personal interest in the club’s subject – don’t have to ask others what kind of activities to do with the club.</p>
<p>Agree with NSmom, sounds like transcript padding to me-you’ve been called out by CC, sophiar.</p>
<p>wow some of you people are incredibly rude! I am simply starting a club, I want to bring people together, I have no friends in college and my goal is to meet new people. Don’t accuse me of resume padding and that bs. You’re kids probably started clubs too, were they also just looking for acceptance into a top college? Is that what you’d accuse your kids of doing? Also I have ideas of what I want to do with, but I had wanted to hear other peoples experiences. You guys are pretty pathetic to put me down like that over a message board.</p>
<p>Agree with the others. You are doing exactly what adcoms would not be impressed with…starting a club for all for the wrong reasons. So it is already BS, however you want to play around with appearances of it. </p>
<p>Then again, what do colleges really expect from kids in highschool? You can’t really blame the the kids-- if the admissions critierion can be gamed/coached/packaged/tutored it will be gamed/coached/packaged/tutored. Colleges want genuinely bright students, with intellectual curiosity and the personality/talent/leadership attributes that suggest they will make a difference in the world one day…but when all the colleges have to go on are SATs, GPAs and lists of ECs, and everyone wants to look the part, kids will grind and cram for the supposed ‘aptitude test’, focus on grades instead of learning in HS, and do ECs in an instrumental fashion. All whilst pretending they are ‘passionate’. While some student are the real thing, a lot are just savvy about hiding the pretense of it all. Colleges probably have a tough time separating the real thing from all the noise.</p>
<p>sophiar- You brought up the adcom in your original post so a red flag went up.
If you have no friends to help seed a club it may be difficult to get interest going. Kumbaya, kumbaya.</p>
<p>Okay so maybe it is a tiny bit for my resume, but does that really make me a bad person? hm?
Its not resume padding because that is when you lie, I’m not lying.</p>
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<p>Resume padding is a sin.</p>
<p>Northstarmom+starbright- We were right! High 5 all around!</p>