<p>I need the truth: will joining one of these clubs help me with business in the future. It has been a recent dream of mine to open a specialty restaurant. Will these clubs help me gain connections to do so? Thanks in advanced</p>
<p>From anecdotal experiences, they will detract you from success. I had a lot of friends in the pre-business frats, and all they did was drink and party (not different from any social frat). They also looked silly since they wore suits and ties around school, and most of them never had jobs.</p>
<p>They serve as more of a social distraction without handing out enough guilt to actually get you to step up your game. If you want to open a restaurant, there is an Entrepreneurial club somewhere there (at least there was in 2009-2010) that might be more beneficial. The smaller, more focused clubs were okay (Undergrad Investment Society, etc.), but just stay away from stuff like AKPsi, DSP, and PBL; with a quick search on FB, I see that only a few of them have any ‘worthwhile’ jobs, which they probably could have gotten if they had just interned as an undergrad anyway.</p>
<p>And I didn’t do anything business-related in undergrad (besides co-owning a wedding photography business, but that’s a little beside the point), but I’m in Kellogg now for grad school, and everyone here’s gotten here because of work experience, and not because they were involved in any of these pre-business societies.</p>
<p>I had another question. Are the pre-law frats helpful? I’m a poli sci major and I’m unsure if I want to go to law school, but I do want to get more involve in government or politics? Would this frat be a good vehicle to gain connections of internships?</p>
<p>thanks in advanced</p>
<p>Law schools place 0 weight on extracurriculars. Serious. Things they care about: LSAT (#1), (LSAC-weighted) GPA, and whether you’re an under-represented minority (URM), which LSAC classifies as African-American, Native American, Mexican/Cuban-American; other hispanics don’t count.</p>
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<p>Also, I don’t advise anyone to go to law school for the time being. The entire field is absolute crap and there are far far far too many lawyers being graduated every year for way too few jobs. Even if you graduate from a T14 program, you’re not guaranteed even a public sector job.</p>