<p>If you volunteered with Obama's reelection team locally, could you put this on college applications? I wasn't sure if it would be relevant or create an bias (with the person reading the application). What about putting it on a resume?</p>
<p>If it were me, I would just put that I volunteered on a Presidential Election Campaign that way they will not know which candidate I supported.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t be paranoid about listing political involvement unless it were something extreme and fringey.</p>
<p>I agree with T26E4.</p>
<p>Only selective colleges will even care about your extracurricular activities. But selective colleges will (with perhaps a very few exceptions) want to create a campus culture where the life of the mind is vibrant and where serious discourse takes place. One way to do this is by having a politically diverse student population. So, no matter what you may have heard about Harvard being a bastion of liberalism, one subset of Harvard’s student population is vocal conservatives. Similarly, Notre Dame has a reputation for being a conservative place, but it has, for example, College Democrats and a Progressive Student Alliance.</p>
<p>The admissions officers aren’t basing their admissions decisions on whether they’d like to be your best friend; they’re basing their decisions on whether you’re academically qualified, and whether you’d help make their college an interesting place for others to go to school.</p>
<p>So it’s OK–probably even helpful–for you to have your own political point of view.</p>
<p>Great points, thanks guys.</p>
<p>There are way more potentially biasing/controversial things you can put on an application without any problem. Even prominently so. This is definitely something you should include.</p>