<p>Due to my other thread stating my tough situation regarding with my no EC and caring of my younger brother.</p>
<p>I want to know if this is possible....????? </p>
<p>Let's Say from 10-11 so 2 Years process Grade I decide to make a club but is not officiated meaning no contact with school. I have members ranging from my friends to my cousins. We meet a couple times a week to discuss ways to bring in money for our project.</p>
<p>We hold garage sales, lawn services and community service events where all the money will go to funding a school supplies/Utilities care package for my mom and I at the end of my junior year to Vietnam to visit my parents native town and to donate the package to the kids. I know my uncle, he is a principle at the local vietnam school. We could get a official document so it can be proof. This is something that is my passion because any thing to help my country is a plus</p>
<p>How about a Online Business? I devote a lot of time to make a 60$ month income where so and so % goes to Vietnam Donation Fund.
And Basketball, even though I don't play in a sports team. I still practice at least 1-2 hours day at gym or at home.</p>
<p>The club is great. The business is great also. You can get documentation, and you can even write essays about it, or your 150 word “Describe one activity”. </p>
<p>Actually, I like those a lot better than some generic president of yadda-yadda club… way cooler looking </p>
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If you dedicate yourself to it passionately, yes. If you invent a club/service project to make yourself look good for admissions, probably not so much.</p>
<p>I didn’t see your other thread, so don’t know what sort of answers you got from whom. But taking care of your brother in order to help your family make ends meet is a perfectly reasonable thing to show on your application. Just like having a job to help your family, it’s easily as good as, if not better than, the typical school clubs and sports and what-not.</p>
<p>Pro28 has a good point, though. There are a lot of benefits to registering the club with your school. You can use the school’s resources as permitted (e.g., phone, fax, copier, event space) and sometimes there’s even seed money for clubs. Most importantly, though, you’d have a better shot at getting donations (especially corporate ones) because of your affiliation with the school. That would make a bigger difference. And if your primary purpose is to put something on your college resume (which is still the way your original post reads to me), having a sponsor and a record with your school would help to document your activities – more believable than writing, “So like, I started this club with my friends and cousins at my house, and I was really passionate about it, and we raised some money that my mom and I used to buy stuff that I gave to my uncle for some kids in Vietnam.” </p>
<p>As to being at home most of the time, are you talking about after school, or during school hours as well? My son led a club that met in a classroom during lunch hours… he also participated in several ECs that met during study hall, and in another club that used the time immediately before after school creatively for outreach but usually met weekends or evenings in a student’s home or (ahem!) a gym. Any of those options might work for you if you’re serious enough about getting the club rolling, and if you can get it sanctioned as a school club.</p>
<p>An adult perspective on the online business thing – the way you’ve explained it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. What are you thinking of doing, brokering stuff on eBay?</p>
<p>I can’t because I am home after school taking care of my brother because my parents aren’t home from work. If I register at school then my cousins from blaine won’t be able to make it to the meetings and my friends who play in numerous sports cannot attend and also I would not be able to stay after school. And I can’t do it during school because open period is only for juniors and seniors and my parent’s wouldn’t let me take a open if I was junior because they want me to focus on my academics. </p>
<p>We try to have meetings as often as we can at my house or friends. I also have partnership with my cousins in Illinois where they can help with the 2 year fundraiser. </p>
<p>My online business is an Advertising marketing company where you refer people to the company’s site and I get a check each month.</p>
<p>Hello there,
actually I don’t know how to register any clubs with my school. I mean I founded a club in my freshman year and I asked the sponsor to talk to the principal. She said she did. But I don’t even know whether the club was registered or not. How to check it?</p>
My online business is an Advertising marketing company where you refer people to the company’s site and I get a check each month.
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Spamming definitely is not an EC, and clicktrading is not a business. With the rest of your plans… good luck. To sustain a true service organization in the home circumstances you’ve described would require ingenuity and initiative, which are admirable traits.
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I asked the sponsor to talk to the principal. She said she did. But I don’t even know whether the club was registered or not. How to check it?
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If you have a faculty sponsor, it sounds like your club is official. Aside from that, I suppose you could go to the office and ask. There should be a handbook for club officers, or at least some guidelines for your club to follow.</p>
<p>Thank you and yea I’ll leave online business aside. </p>
<p>And I don’t spam and the company’s website main rule is no spamming or whatever it is click thingy. The website is a legit site seen on CNN money but yea thanks for response.</p>
<p>The term “spam” is not limited to email. What you described (and what you did in your initial posts here) is known unquestionably as spamming by webmasters and forum administrators. It violates the terms of service of those sites.</p>
<p>After looking through your post history a bit, I think I see that you’re having trouble figuring out what everybody means by “passion.” Passion isn’t something you can mark on the list and check it off, “Done. Next!” (although it’s understandable from reading CC that you might think it is).</p>
<p>Passion is the feeling inside you that you really, really want to do something – even if it’s inconvenient for you. Because it’s important to you, you work hard and get really good at it, and after a while you probably become a leader in some way. Whatever you’re passionate about is so important to you, that you throw yourself into it and you’re willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen. If you don’t have time for it, you find ways to make time. You give up your lunch hour, or you spend less time on CC, or you skip that basketball date with your pals, or you race through your homework, or you sleep a little less and take the 6am bus to school so you can be there for it. Whatever “it” is. Your challenge is to figure out what “it” is for you. And then do it.</p>
<p>@belly: Just go into your school’s office (or to your sponsor) and ask; that’s about the only way you’ll find out for sure. You could also ask what rules the school has for your club to follow, if any.</p>
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