<p>what club SHOULD you join to get into an ivy league?</p>
<p>There are no clubs that will guarantee your being accepted to an Ivy. You’ll raise your chances of getting into top schools by joining and creating clubs and activities that genuinely interest you, and by creatively pursuing your passions in those activities. Even if doing this doesn’t result in your getting into a top college, you’ll have a happier, more fulfilled life in general by being involved in such activities.</p>
<p>If you are a person who is doing only things that you think will get you into Ivies, you have a lower chance than average of getting into Ivies. The people who are most likely to get into Ivies are smart people who have Ivy-quality stats and have taken classes and participated in activities out of their own interest, not to impress Ivies. They aren’t on CC asking others how to live their lives.</p>
<p>Don’t join clubs, start them- but as Northstarmom already mentioned, don’t just start them for the sake of embellishing your application. What do you enjoy? What do you want to share with your fellow classmates? And if there are already a handful of clubs that you’re interested in, then join them and try to obtain a position in which you can affect change within the club. Of course, holding a leadership position doesn’t neccessarily equate to genuine passion- in fact, most students nowadays do it just for the sake of stacking up a list a meaningless extracurricular on their applications. But with admissions officers receiving thousands upon thousands of applications every year, it’s the only realistic way they can discern the genuine from the generic. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>“Don’t join clubs, start them”</p>
<p>Nope, that’s meaningless in itself. Whether or not you start a club or have an official leadership position, what matters is what you accomplish in that club or activity. By “accomplish,” I don’t mean whether or not you are voted an officer.</p>
<p>Impressive accomplishments mean your actions have resulted in made some kind of positive difference in the club or activity. Examples: Organizing a fund raiser; establishing a new club initiative; teaching a developmentally disabled person a social skill, etc. </p>
<p>Just starting a club or holding an office is meaningless. The relatively few colleges that factor ECs into admissions decisions can tell the difference between resume dressing and accomplishments that reflect the fact that the student is a proactive person who’ll add to a campus environment.</p>
<p>Most competitors for spots at hte IVYs are very similar and would all belong. Obviously, there is not room for all though.</p>
<p>A club is not a hook of any kind. </p>
<p>Move to Wyoming or South Dakota and you may stand out!!</p>
<p>It’s not so much what club you join or even the passion you have but how effectively you can convey the passion to the admissions officers.</p>
<p>Try joining a club you are actually interested in. You might surprise yourself and actually do something that isn’t solely designed to get you in college.</p>
<p>join whatever you want</p>
<p>there is no framework to making an ivy league school</p>
<p>well, there is one thing you can do: Win a noble prize</p>
<p>The value of pursuing things you love, quality versus quantity, etc is being discussed at length here <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/833515-ecs-pointless-unfair-2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/833515-ecs-pointless-unfair-2.html</a></p>
<p>so I think it’d be more interesting to discuss what sorts of ECs students who have been successful in college admissions at each of our schools participate in. For mine, Science Olympiad kids have done fairly well, but not because our team is particularly impressive (quite the contrary). I think it has more to do with the fact that science-oriented kids (especially girls) tend to do well in college admissions in general, and perhaps because our team is so noncompetitive that it leaves those kids time to really pursue their schoolwork. Echo Foundation kids also tend to do well, at top LACs and non-HYPS first tier schools especially. And Deca kids do very well, considering that it’s the club for popular girls with middling grades–our team competes internationally.</p>
<p>How about you guys?</p>
<p>join or create a club that you have a passion for. Dont join simply becasue you think it will make you attractive to a school. Join something that you actually like, take an active role within it, and hopfully you will be made an officer.</p>
<p>If the club that you would like to join doesnt exist, create a new one. </p>
<p>thats shows leadership and the ability to work hard through red tape for something you really want</p>