<p>What exactly do they do. What kinds of powers do they have and what are their limits? How hard is it to become one. Thank you in advance!</p>
<p>They don’t have “powers”, nothing like president of the U.S. In most schools, it means they’re the most popular one. Technically, it means they are the head of the Student Government and they and the rest of the student government come up with different activities and fundraisers and that type of thing. </p>
<p>How hard? Like I said, in most schools it’s a popularity contest.</p>
<p>For our school the class president actually does a lot. They lead and organize all student activities pertaining to their class. It seems pretty much like there’s a rank of succession by popularity. The president is more popular than the vp, the vp is more popular than me (treasurer), I’m probably more popular than the secretary.</p>
<p>Student body offices (the offices elected by the entire the student body instead of just your class) are entirely different here though. Our student body president is arguably one of the most disliked people on the campus, but he’s brilliant so he’s a good president. The Studnt body Vp is extremely shy and socially awkward. Last years president was gay.</p>
<p>So being class president is relatively a popularity contest (but I wouldn’t jump into it unless you really want it and not just for apps or whatever) But school wide elections are more based on ability (at least here.)</p>
<p>The class elections at my school, and likely most throughout the country, are pretty much popularity-based. Every time I ran for the student government I always lost to a miss-popular, many of them who only party, never take advanced courses, and will mostly end up at small state schools.</p>
<p>Nothing. They feel good about themselves, but they (and the entire cabinet) do nothing.</p>
<p>I so totally agree with everyone above…</p>
<p>If I was you, I’d run for NHS president. It seems much more respectable and prestigious of a title. Of course this is biased because NHS at my school does more and the officers end up going to ivy league colleges whereas the class president go to the local school.</p>
<p>In my school, they do nothing. I was able to get class treasurer (3rd in rankings), but I’ve done all the work this year. It was the same last year. Student council is very corrupt.</p>
<p>Student council in my school seems to be rigged by overachievers who want an impressive EC. Usually, student council elections are open only to active student council volunteers. An opportunist who’s only participated once in student council got his friends (who’ve also only volunteered once) to rack up votes for him. TADA! New president.</p>
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<p>And what is wrong with small state schools?</p>