<p>I'm pretty good at stocks so I thought I'd make a club for it and become president for it. Do colleges look into how active/successful a club is or will putting that I was president be enough? I plan on crossing the minimum for members set by my high school and then keeping it small to keep it manageable.</p>
<p>Create a club if you want to and if you can manage it, not for college apps. </p>
<p>It’s much more impressive if your club makes some sort of impact than if people just sit there. Say there’s a stock market game your members can answer, and your club manages to sweep top 5, and gets monetary rewards you can donate to the school, as well as recognition. That’s more impressive than just if everybody lost money and ending up bottom 200 or something like that.</p>
<p>Basically, if you’re looking at describing your club in your app as an EC you could either say:</p>
<p>“President and founder of stock trading club with 15 members.”</p>
<p>OR</p>
<p>“President and founder of stock trading club; club awarded $1000 in monetary funds for 4 members achieving top 5 in the Stock Market Game.” </p>
<p>… or something similar. Which one do you think would be better? Note that achieving the latter would take actual work (as starting a club takes relatively little effort, really), and so when it comes to clubs like these, the more work you put into it (as well as the more skilled you are at stock trading in your case), the more you can gain from it.</p>
<p>Based on the rigor of this year I won’t be able to perform the second option. Should I still do the first?</p>
<p>I completely agree with topaz on this one: you should create a club because it’s something you’re passionate about, not because it increases your chances of getting into a good college. Now of it does increase your chances, that’s an added bonus. </p>
<p>Don’t create a club just to create a club. It won’t make any impact in the college game most likely, and would take away from things you consider more worthy of your time and/or more important. </p>