<p>I am a Freshman in high school right now and my high school offers a class called "Leadership". Is it worth it? Does it look good on college applications? Is it better to take it all of the remaining three years of high school, or is one year enough? It sounds like a fun class and I want something that will give me an edge when applying to colleges. So should I take it and for how many years?</p>
<p>My physics teacher described it as a “class for ■■■■■■■”</p>
<p>LOL k your physics teacher is gonna get the boot</p>
<p>I advise that you don’t take a class for the sole purpose of putting it on your application.</p>
<p>If it intrigues you though, then I suggest that you take it.</p>
<p>In general these non academic classes can be described as “classes for ■■■■■■■.” Colleges would rather you take something academic unless you’ve exhausted all academic options.</p>
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<p>Unlikely. But more seriously, leadership students plan parties, hang banners and do minimum wage level labor at school events. Colleges want you to demonstrate leadership ability, not take the class.</p>
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<p>LOL kinda seems like it. My HS doesn’t offer that</p>
<p>“class for ■■■■■■■” hahahahah:)</p>
<p>As a very active student leader and 3 yr veteran of student leadership i gotta admit its kinda true though. </p>
<p>It’s really like anything else though, you’ll get out of it as much as you put into it.</p>
<p>I am actually the secretary of all the student councils in my state and my leadership teacher/student council sponsor has been the national student council sponsor of the year. I have planned and coordinated 7 leadership workshops and I will MC our state leadership convention with over 5000 members and she has been doin this stuff for over 20 yrs… We’re kinda pros… </p>
<p>To be honest with you, I doubt colleges will care that you take leadership… its actually kind of a negative thing for me since i have taken it 3 yrs and it doesn’t even count for anything after the first time, but if you pursue student leadership positions… colleges will love it. We don’t do much in our leadership class and we are actually very knowledgeable about it… but thats just us, I’ve been around leadership classes and student councils from all over… some of them do some serious work. If you do a lot, you can put some very impressive service projects and positions on your college apps.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of such a class before.</p>
<p>^Neither have I… sounds stupid tbh :/</p>
<p>Our school makes us take an ethics and leadership class…it is the most pointless thing ever. I would imagine that would be the case at most schools. If you want to get into a good college, take a rigorous class and find your leadership somewhere else.</p>
<p>At my school leadership class —(probably leads to)—> senior project where you get to miss school for a week and intern/shadow a job that you’re interested in.</p>
<p>I wanna do a senior project when I’m a senior. Probably something with either a)acting/voice acting or musician. :D</p>
<p>Unless you hold a major position in having to do that class, such as President, VP, Treasurer, or Secretary, do not even bother. It is indeed a class for ■■■■■■■. Better to do a sport or a musical instrument.</p>
<p>leadership isn’t something that is taught, its something you figure out on your own. Try getting together a school team for a competition or something along those lines.</p>
<p>Ah, there’s these two similar classes at school, one’s “student leadership” which is basically a student assistant to either the office/library/attendance/nurse/randomteacher. I have that 1st. </p>
<p>Then there’s PALS, which is basically that blow off class where kids are supposed to help out around the school, do some paper work, just talk, and have these random field trips. </p>
<p>Also, there’s this one Academic Decathlon class that has leadership in its fancy title but that class is incredibly hard, so’s the team really, they’re kinda district champs or something big in the state. The class is just extra study time.</p>
<p>I suppose it depends on your school, maybe it is a big deal the leadership class, maybe they’re all really involved and the teacher is great, maybe it’s just a blow off period. Either way, it’s not something to impress colleges with.</p>
<p>I kind of took one… A few select students from my grade got applications to the “Youth Leadership Institute” where we took field trips every month to explore career opportunities. Though I didn’t know it when I applied for it, it turned out to be an actual college class though our local CC, and I got college credit and everything for it, which is pretty cool. </p>
<p>If it’s something extracurricular like that, then that would look great on an app. But it probably wouldn’t be a great idea to take just a normal class through your high school. I have a feeling colleges would view it as a blow-off class, which it probably is.</p>
<p>HAHAHA…not to sound impolite or anything, but that reeks of stupidity. 
MeSsIaH is right: leadership is something you should be smart/capable/whatever enough to have or figure out without counseling. That’s a bit over-the-top. Something like “How to Recognize the Hottest Guy/Girl Course”. You may naturally encounter some struggles with doing it, but it’s not a big enough deal to have to fluff up for a class. At all.</p>
<p>Eh, I don’t know about any exciting potential internships/opportunities that may come with it, but right away first impressions would be that the student had trouble keeping up with “academic” subjects and needed a fill-in. It’s not like leadership requires actual * thinking * lol. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>^are you referring to my post or the thread starter’s post?</p>
<p>I’ve taken two Leadership courses (in freshman and junior year), and I thoroughly enjoyed both and expected to enjoy neither. Contrary to what many here think, it was a class that required quite a bit of thinking.</p>
<p>We took a mostly historical approach in the freshman class. We studied approaches leadership from Plato, Aristotle, W.E.B Dubois, Machiavelli, Gandhi etc. from various essays and books they had written. At the same time we practiced speech-making and improved our vocabularies.</p>
<p>In the junior year class, we read other approaches to leadership and ethics (Lao Tzu, Tolstoy, Thomas Cronin, Robert Greenleaf, Carlyle, etc) but this time we applied them to problems within the school. We were given projects that pushed us to take an initiative in improving the school and the community. Everything was up to the students for these projects; the teacher took a totally hands-off approach. We coordinated a volunteer fair and a blood drive, and our final exam was to put on a presentation defining leadership for our friends and family. We were expected to come up with our own definitions of leadership, and explain them. We also worked on resume portfolios, interviews, and recommendation letters (our teacher wrote one for everyone in the class).</p>
<p>For both each of these classes, I was required to do at least 50 hours of volunteer work. (I ended up doing about 350 total). The people who took these courses ended up at the top of the class, and they’re some of my best friends. Couldn’t imagine high school without them.</p>
<p>But then again, I had an extremely optimistic and motivated teacher for both years. She believes that if she tries hard enough she can work herself out of a job as a Leadership teacher.</p>
<p>I’ve taken two Leadership courses (in freshman and junior year), and I thoroughly enjoyed both and expected to enjoy neither. Contrary to what many here think, it was a class that required quite a bit of thinking.</p>
<p>We took a mostly historical approach in the freshman class. We studied approaches leadership from Plato, Aristotle, W.E.B Dubois, Machiavelli, Gandhi etc. from various essays and books they had written. At the same time we practiced speech-making and improved our vocabularies.</p>
<p>In the junior year class, we read other approaches to leadership and ethics (Lao Tzu, Tolstoy, Thomas Cronin, Robert Greenleaf, Carlyle, etc) but this time we applied them to problems within the school. We were given projects that pushed us to take an initiative in improving the school and the community. Everything was up to the students for these projects; the teacher took a totally hands-off approach. We coordinated a volunteer fair and a blood drive, and our final exam was to put on a presentation defining leadership for our friends and family. We were expected to come up with our own definitions of leadership, and explain them. We also worked on resume portfolios, interviews, and recommendation letters.</p>
<p>For both each of these classes, I was required to do at least 50 hours of volunteer work. (I ended up doing about 350 total). The people who took these courses ended up at the top of the class, and they’re some of my best friends. Couldn’t imagine high school without them.</p>
<p>But then again, I had an extremely optimistic and motivated teacher for both years. She believes that if she tries hard enough she can work herself out of a job as a Leadership teacher.</p>