<p>The President’s Club: All members are automatically club president.</p>
<p>Lots of kids at my school started clubs primarily for the purposes of padding resumes. I don’t think it is a bad thing. In a lot of ways, it is like starting a small business. There’s paperwork, marketing, executive decision-making, fund-raising, and general organizing that needs to be done. Overall, it is more work than it might appear to make a successful and legitimate club and keep it going.</p>
<p>Tutoring Club
Red Cross Club
Math Club
Robotics Club
Programming Club
Science Club
Hiking Club</p>
<p>Many students who start clubs for resume padding easily start clubs that are clubs in name only or clubs that do such trivial things that they wouldn’t impress admissions officers at the few colleges that care about such things.</p>
<p>Such clubs that I’ve heard about from students whom I’ve interviewed included Pie Club (They got together and ate pies each week. It was supposed to reduce the stress of being seniors) and Games Club (Seniors got together to play games to reduce their stress). I had to work hard to keep a straight face when students explained to me the great importance of those clubs that they founded or were officers in.</p>
<p>Really, it is important to have a legitimate purpose. Pie Club is silly on the face of it but might be more complicated. Who bought the pies? Was there fund-raising? What happened with extras? How big was the club? How were pies selected? Were there pie-eating contests? Prizes? Pie baking contests? Admittedly, it is a bit of a stretch to make a Pie Club into something really substantial and life-altering.</p>
<p>Games clubs are popular at my high school. There are logic games clubs, a chess club, and others. I think games are worthwhile - - sportsmanship, critical thinking, spatial thinking, . . . There are all of the logistics about forming a games club - - dealing with the school’s bureaucracy, finding a sponsor, acquiring games, conducting tournaments, raising money for contests, organizing tournaments, . . . it can be quite time-consuming. Playing games might even help raise test scores. The games club president is busier at my school than the NHS president is. </p>
<p>That’s not to say every club has as much merit as the next. Not all club presidents are created equal, but some pastimes might be more than fluff.</p>
<p>I agree, kollegkid. Pie Club could have been a serious club, but it really was just a club in which once a week, students brought pies and ate them. Games club was simply a once a week club in which students played a variety of games. Yes, such clubs could have been fund raisers or high level competitions, but they weren’t. </p>
<p>Years after hearing about those clubs when I interviewed students for Harvard, I’m still amazed that students could tell me about those clubs with a straight face, and that those students seemed to think that I was stupid enough to be impressed by such clubs.</p>
<p>I knew plenty of students who played games or watched movies with friends to reduce their stress, but they didn’t include such “clubs” on their resumes.</p>
<p>One of the most impressive leadership activities I ever heard about in an interview was a student who had become the first student to be named uniform manager of her large high school marching band. The position involved a great deal of responsibility for important things that most people would take for granted, and she expanded the job to include creating an orientation program for the band’s freshmen. The band advisor had asked the student if she’d be willing to take on that job after the student lost the election for band president. The student loved the band, and was willing to do anything she could to support it. The student ended up at a top 5 college.</p>
<p>Onthefly, if you are starting a club just because its too late to be an officer of one, thats showing you have no passion whatsoever, and if your club does become successful, boy, you are going to have a tough time explaining it.
If you want to go to college for a reason besides it looking bad not to go one (passion) then start a club on something you like.</p>
<p>Academic Team!</p>
<p>I hate threads like this.</p>
<p>milk and cookies ■■■■</p>
<p>did you really go back 5 months ago threads to answer a question that needs no help anymore?</p>