I understand what you’re saying. I’ve had to be my own advocate for most of my life and I believe that reason alone is why I was able to achieve what I have in the past few years. I can see where originally in this thread I came off overconfident and stubborn, but truly that isn’t very characteristic of me. (If you check on the page before this post I decided to rethink things and take the sage advice given to me here).
The reason I went for so many positions in my school is that I had seen where so many potentially powerful clubs had grown stagnant and I wanted to have more influence so I could change that, not for the titles.
For example, the National Honors Society at my school did absolutely nothing asides from tutoring within the school and the partnered middle school. I ran for president because I wanted our group to have a greater impact outside of the school. The outreach program I’m developing is highly unconventional for my school and it was very difficult to get permission to start it and to raise the money for it. My school is set in an old mill town with low-income housing, drug trafficking, and crime. The streets even during the day are extremely dangerous, and the girls aren’t allowed out alone. Every day I see the school bus come and drop off dozens of kids to the dilapidated houses around us. I thought it was absolutely awful how an NHS club can focus so much on their people when they’re literally surrounded by suffering. It’s very unlikely that any of those kids have a real support system at home, and even more unlikely that they’ll be able to break the cycle of poverty and crime that they grew up in. We’re planning on collaborating with the nearby public elementary and middle schools and reach out to the kids to offer them not only homework help, but life help.
I understand that many kids applying to prestigious schools do so solely for the elite title, but I can assure you that this is far from my case. I’ve visited many colleges, but there was something about Yale in particular that struck a chord within me. I loved how the administration actually encouraged their students to get involved and to push the limits., something I had not ever experienced before. The people I met and spoke with actually cared about what happened in the world, even if it didn’t personally affect them. I met so many people that shared my passion for social justice and inclination to uphold global citizenship. So many people of different cultures came together in one interconnecting community! It was a sense I had not felt at any other school I had visited. I felt at home there, and honestly, it could be a community college and I would still love to be there. I really would like to hope that I’m a good match and they the admissions officers think so too, but if it doesn’t work out then it just wasn’t meant to be.