<p>Currently a junior, I am an officer of two clubs (vice president of SGA and secretary of technology club)</p>
<p>As an officer, I have to meet twice every week; one for the officer meeting and one general. As a secretary and VP, all meetings are pretty much mandatory.</p>
<p>I simply find it extraordinary how some people have managed to become officers in five different clubs and participate as members in five more clubs. </p>
<p>Are you really devoted in all five clubs?<br>
Do you actually attend all meetings?
Do all clubs coincidentally fall in different days of the week?</p>
<p>Its just amazing. Teachers in my schools are lazy and thus all of the club activity meetings are held from mondays to thursdays. Even if you have a friday as one of your meetings, I find it near impossible for one to be actively involved in as many as six clubs.</p>
<p>I actually do not participate in many clubs (maybe just one or two) and send more time getting involved in that one, instead of trying to do alot. Even though I am far from college app time--YES, I do plan on being 100% honest about the time spent.</p>
<p>It depends. I'm in a bunch of clubs and sometimes they do coincide - if I have 3 different meetings scheduled for the same time, I just have to prioritize and talk to my sponsors to make up the other meetings. </p>
<p>Some of the clubs (student government, FBLA) that I'm in are very flexible, in that any meeting is usually held twice a day, before and after school. This way, if you're busy one of those times, you just attend the other meeting.</p>
<p>We don't have officer meetings in any clubs I know of.</p>
<p>One of my clubs meets every Tuesday, one meets every Thursday. MUN only meets twice before each conference (once to sign up for countries and get info and once one or two days before for some final words). My last club meets in the evenings, since it isn't in school.</p>
<p>Four clubs, two days after school per week.</p>
<p>I could theoretically join five or six more clubs, three that meet each Monday/Wednesday/Friday, Red Cross which means once a month... etc. But I wouldn't care about them at all, so I'm sticking with these.</p>
<p>I'm going to apply to NHS (very selective) and French NHS (not very selective) later on this year, and depending on what we do and if I'll be able to be an officer or not, I'll decide whether they're worth putting time into. If not, they'll just be my fun clubs. I've had one or two each year (Film Club, Future Problem Solvers - just to hang out with friends, etc)</p>
<p>Are you really devoted in all five clubs?
Do you actually attend all meetings?
Do all clubs coincidentally fall in different days of the week?</p>
<p>Officers are supposed to meet in every single meeting in most of the clubs at most school - that is, the strongest and most organized clubs (such as Key Club and NHS). </p>
<p>Usually, the other members are club-hoppers and they NEVER show up if they don't have any friends in the club prior and will eventually flake off - from what I've noticed. </p>
<p>Officers - depending on how busy they are and how they prioritize their ECs or if they're simply resume padding, at my school, will usually give advance notice or appear within 5 minutes of the club. It really depends on the strength of the club in securing its members.</p>
<p>Advisors at my school are busy or lazy. I've seen clubs hold meetings without advisors for a long time - at my school, they're more of a way of giving credibility to a club or talking with the administration for any needs or whatever. </p>
<p>As for juggling clubs - the clubs at my school are really soft. The ones where people join because they actually care (such as a sort of dance club/team) there are regular meetings and less concern with officer positions and authority of course and the advisor is very active. Same goes for cultural groups that have clear focuses.</p>
<p>The other clubs are there for resume padding, club-hoppers, and resume-padding. The same people are in the very few number of clubs at my school and so, whatever (same people hold the same officer positions too!). </p>
<p>I used to participate in clubs. Hmm, my school sucks. :o</p>
<p>I am:
-President/Founder of Writing Club
-Vice-President of a Web Design Company started by myself and a few friends
-Treasurer of Red Cross Club
-Domestic News Reporter for Democratic Student Union
-3rd Officer of PMICU</p>
<p>And a member of CSF and MUN.</p>
<p>I just joined CSF and MUN this year, and neither have had their first meetings yet, so I can't say anything about those.</p>
<p>As far as my commitment to the clubs I have leadership positions in...well, it's still pretty much only the beginning of the year. I'm currently committing the most time to Writing club, the company, and Red Cross Club. Writing Club meets every Sunday for 2 hours, the company usually gets together 2 or 3 times a week for 2-3 hours and the Red Cross Club meets twice a week.</p>
<p>That may not seem very much, but obviously there are tasks to do for these clubs when meetings are not in session. My other clubs just don't meet as much...</p>
<p>heheh one of the merits of private school is that their clubs and sports schedules are sorted out; i.e. sports clubs meet after school from 4 to 6 and non-physical clubs meet 6-7. all the club representatives hold a meeting to ensure that the major clubs don't coincide (well this is what I've heard from some of my friends in New Jersey)</p>
<p>Its pretty interesting how people thought of making this hierarchy in extracurricular activities and daring to name them president, v.p., treasurer etc. Highschool leadership; it just seems superflous... I don't expect colleges to fully appreciate it :) perhaps this is only true to public schools. I don't know what I'm saying lol... please ignore me</p>
<p>you guys are right. perhaps I felt rather intimidated with my extracurricular records as CCers have some truly fantastic resumes and I forgot the fact that they represent the cream of the crop of the applicant pool (or maybe not!)</p>
<p>I can't deny that I'm engaging in the various club activities for college; in fact I don't think anyone would join more than five different clubs if only academic performance was the sole factor in college admission. but, I do enjoy this sense of achievement and club activity is a great way to hang around and chill. (its also suppose to help you build character lol thru various experience)</p>