<p>Can somebody help me think of a useful club to start? Almost everything is taken at my school and I want a chance to lead. I know I have good leadership skills and I would appreciate it if I could demonstrate these skills. THanks :)</p>
<p>I am in the same boat, and people told me that it is generally best to start a club that shows your interests and uniqueness. What do you enjoy?</p>
<p>What type of club do you want? Academic, political, recreational, spiritual, service, social, or cultural? Start there and then narrow it down.</p>
<p>Amnesty International? Red Cross Club? Ping Pong Club? Checkers Cub? Recycling Drive? Sports tournament to raise money for a worthy cause? It can be anything that you like and that other students are willing to participate in. Anything is good. If you don’t like organizing clubs, get a job and work. Both show responsibility and other good qualities. Good luck.</p>
<p>Starting a club because one wants experience to lead is a dumb idea. Few colleges care about leadership experience when it comes to admission. The colleges that do are places like HPYS that have an overabundance of high stat applicants, and choose from those high stat applicants the ones with the most to offer (including leadership) to create a vibrant, well rounded campus.</p>
<p>For such colleges, simply having started a club won’t indicate leadership. The leaders who stand out in such colleges’ admissions are those who are national and regional officers in clubs and those who created projects – fundraisers, etc. – that were effective. Such colleges know darned well it’s easy to start clubs that are clubs in name only and only reflect students’ interests in looking good to colleges. I’ve interviewed for Harvard and had no problem spotting those kind of club “leaders”.</p>
<p>If you want to get leadership experience organize a project with a club that you’re already in, and make that project something that you care about – not something you’re doing to impress colleges.</p>
<p>Northstarmom is exactly right. Clubs are used to emphasize things you already enjoy and want to share with the school, not to impress a college admission officers. However, some clubs I am in a Book Club, Gay-Straight Alliance, Latin Club, and an Improv Club. These are all things I enjoyed, so it was natural for me to either start one or join one. If you really want leadership, define yourself within the clubs you are already in and rise to the top. :)</p>
<p>I started a GREEN club this year at my school. There aren’t many people in it, but really, there aren’t very many people in any of the clubs at my school. My school lacks school spirit. We have actually done quite a lot compared to the other clubs at my school. We went hiking at the local state park, posted/advertised around school ways to conserve energy, went to an elementary school and gave a presentation on how to get started recycling, and we also made recycled paper.</p>
<p>FBLA Future BUsiness Leaders of America…its a national organization</p>
<p>check it out,</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.fbla-pbl.org/]FBLA-PBL[/url”>http://www.fbla-pbl.org/]FBLA-PBL[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Sex Club; you can think of the rest.</p>
<p>Desperate-to-Get-into-College Club?</p>
<p>Seriously this is lame.</p>
<p>Doing things “just to put on a college application” is completely soul-sucking.</p>
<p>If you’re not passionate about it, no one will join your club anyways.</p>
<p>People do all kinds of “soul-sucking” things to get into good colleges. </p>
<p>Party B will join just as a “soul-sucking” strategy to look like he is a busy, involved, passionate participant in Party A’s club. </p>
<p>It happened all the time at my school.</p>
<p>Here is a club I wish someone would start at my D’s high school: some kind of environmental club that encourages and educates all the other clubs (and especially parent support organizations) on how to hold school events that are more environmentally friendly.</p>
<p>About a month ago, I was one of two parents who helped the visual art teachers put on a huge student exhibition. At the end of the night when we were cleaning up, people were just throwing away a ton of items that could have otherwise been recycled, just to be expedient and clean up quickly. (I actually went trash-can diving to retrieve most of the recyclables.) Later I thought about all the sporting events, music events, etc, that are held at our school, and I bet SO much could be improved, from the consumable items we buy for these events to the way we dispose of them. </p>
<p>This matters to me, but the question is what matters to you? Pick something you’d like to improve or something that interests you, and pursue it as either part of a club you’re already in, or in a new club, if you can find like-minded students who want to work together and address the same issue.</p>
<p>Start something unique. Tissue sniffing club? Maybe not. But it’s a start.</p>
<p>Why don’t you run for a position in a regular club?</p>
<p>Clubs at schools are started when people recognize a need or a gap in the offerings at their school and so they fill that gap. There are a lot LGBT kids and not enough awareness and no clubs, so someone starts an LGBT-Straight Alliance raises awareness. At a school for which there is no interest in that, or there already is one, that won’t work. One girl’s Catholic school banned a bunch of classic literature, so she started a lending library out of her locker. That kind of thing won’t work at a regular public school where those books aren’t banned.</p>
<p>If all of your interests are fulfilled by currently existing clubs and you don’t see a need, why start an extraneous club just for the sake of starting a club? Northstarmom is right. There are other ways to demonstrate leadership experience than starting some shill club.</p>
<p>If you absolutely have to, I think the best things to start would be a club that focuses on environmental issues (raising awareness of environmental issues, starting a recycling program at your school, getting school administrators to conserve energy) or some kind of club that raises money or volunteers for a local effort that’s important in your community.</p>
<p>@Northstarmom, I never said I was making a club just to get into a good college. Maybe I am a megalomaniac that just likes power. Please don’t get angry and start calling people’s ideas “dumb”. However superior you may think you are, you have no right to say such things because it just makes you look worse. I can do whatever I like and if the college does not like it, who cares?? At least I did what I wanted to do.</p>
<p>Calm down. Northstarmom is just saying that the way that you’re portraying your desire to start a club makes it sound like you are one of those people who are doing things to stack their resume. You may or may not be one of those people but we don’t know. Like everyone else said, do something you’re passionate about or get a position in a club you’re passionate about. You’ll be a more effective leader if you do something you like so make a club that revolves around your interests. You could also run for ASB or something like that.</p>
<p>She’s right, it is a dumb idea to just start a random club just because you want to be a leader. You want power? Yeah, create a new club, recruit people, lord over them like an emperor, and expect them to stay an listen. BRILLIANT. Be a rockin’ leader in an organization you actually have no interest in? EVEN MORE BRILLIANT.</p>
<p>If it’s a dumb idea, expect to get called out on it. If you can’t take criticism, then obviously your leadership skills aren’t top notch in the first place. I would love to see you lead a club if you snap like this at every attempt to question your ideas.</p>
<p>I disagree with the last few posts. I think that it is fine that you want to start a club to get into college, but it has to be something you’re passionate about.</p>
<p>Meaning, YES start a club for college, but don’t do “Debate Club” because it sounds smard or don’t just make a “Chinese Club” because you’re Chinese…make something that you CARE ABOUT.</p>
<p>Saying that you want to do it for college is not a crime!</p>
<p>You could start the process to establish an Arts Honor Society or a Foreign Language Honor Society.
Establish or join JROTC
Establish a Wellness Club
SCUBA Club
Future Health Professionals Club
Foreign Film Club</p>