<p>How do colleges view this on one's application? Do schools think that anyone could be president of a few clubs, or, that it shows ambition, leadership, and passion? Does being president of 2 or 3 clubs qualify someone as having excellent extracurricular activities, assuming that the person plays a sport and has about 500 hours of volunteer work and work experience?</p>
<p>If you're super involved in all three and all three are LEGITIMATE clubs (no French Club or Film Society, etc.) then it helps.</p>
<p>If the clubs showcase your passion, then fine.</p>
<p>Otherwise it just looks weird. Being president of a club is a big time committment, realistically it should be hard to not only be ELECTED as the head of three clubs, but then to be able to run all three well.</p>
<p>^^ what? What are "legitimate" clubs? I personally am president of an active writers group, vice president of a Spanish club, and vice president of Key Club. The first two go along with my passions. How would they be "illegitimate"?</p>
<p>I would say it depends on how much effort you put into the club..One school's Film Club could be extremely involved and active, while the school's NHS could be BS. Another school could have an extremely involved NHS, and an inactive film club.
In my opinion, if you are president of two or three dynamic, active clubs that require yearly effort (no matter what they are)-that's respectable.</p>
<p>Would an editior position on a school paper, the president of Mathletes, and an office holder in the Language Honor Society be enough leader positions for a ling or IR major? Would it be better if I could get more office positions in other clubs/honor societies?</p>
<p>The first two are activites I devote myself to, and I think I can get active in the LHS (or maybe even the Langauge Club) to furthur demonstrate my passion.</p>
<p>NHS counts, right?</p>
<p>Yes... They all count.</p>
<p>Yes, they count, but it's largely dependent on how much effort you put into it and how much you can show that on the app. Did you get any awards for NHS? Are you a distinguished Key Clubber? Did you organize a huge event that can be put into essays? Colleges have to be able to distinguish the BS clubs from the genuine clubs.</p>
<p>I think 3 clubs is too many. If you're actually a president of 3 clubs you'd die of all work you'd have to do ON TOP of your rigorous schoolwork. If I was a college, I'd think your clubs are plain BS, but that's my opinion. And even if your clubs are not BS, do they really need a president has to split his/her time between two other clubs?</p>
<p>Hey,</p>
<p>Are your chances minimal for top schools if the ONLY 'in-school' EC you have is Student Council Class President?</p>
<p>No 4567890</p>
<p>Duy, I'm president and hold leadership postions in multiple clubs, but none of the clubs are BS (NHS, Amnesty Int., Newspaper, Yearbook, senior class officer). I care about them all very much, and they're all pretty successful, so I don't think its impossible to be a very committed head of multiple organizations.</p>
<p>The point is that being president of a club that is "legitimate" normally requires a large deal of one's time. For example, I would really only consider one or two clubs legitimate in my school, because for the most part, they don't do much. The foreign language honor society only does one event per year, and that's all they do. I have a friend who is president of science honors society, foreign language honors society, editor in chief of newspaper. Yet newspaper is what takes up 95 percent of her time.</p>
<p>First, my apologies about being rash, but when I start to think from a college's POV, it's well rash like the admissions process.</p>
<p>And yes, NHS is a reputable organization, but who said all schools have good NHS programs. You have to think of it from the colleges' point of view. Unless you demonstrate actual girth for the clubs, like mention your experiences about them in your essay, I doubt they'd merit many points with the Admissions committee. I think that if it's not thoroughly emphasized, "president of a club" is a just another line of text they're skimming through.</p>
<p>Duy, I kind of disagree because most colleges that I know of don't want to read about NHS in your college essay. They want to read about you as an individual. Colleges have to assume that being President of NHS at one school is equivalent to being President of NHS at another.</p>
<p>Of course it's difficult to communicate everything a club does. For example, I'm President of Fellowship of Christian Athletes and unfortunately, we have very few members (around 10) and don't do much besides read the bible. However, I'm also President of the Uganda Sister School Club and this year, not only have we raised $18,000 for our Sister School in Matale, but we have spread awareness in our school and community. There is really no way to know what clubs do more, unless you mention it in your interview or a teacher mentions it.</p>
<p>On the app, about how many hours a week do most ppl devote to their clubs - cuz I spend maybe 1/2 - 2 hours a week at club meetings, 2 or 3 doing work for the clubs, and on days of club trips - 10 or 12 hours. So how would I (or others) reference that on the app where it says "hrs per week/weeks per year"</p>