I am about to be a senior in high school, and I have participated in my school’s student council for my first three years of high school. During my sophomore year, I was sophomore vice president, but I have not had any major leadership positions other than that. This year, the teachers in charge of student council decided to cut down the number of kids in it, and I didn’t get in for senior year. I am not too disappointed because student council was never one of my major extracurriculars anyway. I am wondering if it is even worth putting on my applications despite being in student council for three years because I never really did anything meaningful in it besides helping to plan school events, and we only met twice a week for about 35-40 minutes. I don’t believe it would help too much anyway, but I am not sure. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
It probably depends on the context of what else you do
If you already have a lot of other extra curricular activities that show more meaningful involvement or are connected with your desired major, then putting student council won’t help a lot. It might even hurt a little if the college thinks that you spread your time too thin across too many clubs.
Otherwise, I would put it down as an extracurricular. After all, it can’t really hurt you in that type of situation.
@wongl0786 Thank you for the response, makes sense!
If it were me it would read “Student Body Vice President” not sophomore VP.
No harm in adding it.