<p>I'm a shift supervisor at KFC. But i don't really have any leadership in school government like student council and i am not president of any clubs since my schools' club don't have officer positions since in canada there aren't really pressure on kids to pad their resumes. But i'm wondering how that will affect me in my bid to enter the top US schools?</p>
<p>paid jobs generally are taken more seriously than school activities. nothing will be held against you for being a shift supervisor at KFC rather than president of Film Club.</p>
<p>how do i explain that the clubs at my schools don’t have officer position.</p>
<p>There is no reason to explain.</p>
<p>alright then lol</p>
<p>try to get your counselor to write about it. otherwise, it could be misconstrued as your lack of leadership skills. however, if you really have none, then you shouldn’t make excuses to account for it.</p>
<p>Write an essay or short answer about the time you organized a group to talk to the principal about installing lights in the dark corner of the school parking lot, or the time you organized a full-neighborhood can drive to raise money to buy water balloons for a three hour water balloon fight. (Of course I’m pulling these out of the air, but tell about something you’ve done with enthusiasm that involved getting a bunch of people together to do something or save something or improve upon something.) Leadership doesn’t have to be a formal office in an organization. Colleges need kids who will keep their various student organizations running but they also need kids to go get the floor together to go throw frisbees on the quad or establish a bad movie night in their dorm.</p>
<p>Being a shift supervisor at KFC requires more leadership skills and is a bigger responsibility than do most school offices, including being SGA president. Colleges know this. Few colleges factor ECs and jobs into admissions, but the very top colleges do, and they value paid jobs highly, particularly paid job requiring hard work that obviously weren’t fake jobs given by family friends. Your KFC job would be the type of job that admissions officers would respect. No need to make up anything. You might want to, however, write an essay telling about what your job has taught you about yourself or the world in general.</p>
<p>Being a shift supervisor at a fast-food place means you know how to work with real people (probably adults). It shows you have a lot of responsibility and, coupled with a good high school record, time-management skills. These are all good things.</p>
<p>I’m not a college admissions officer but I would think your job to be more impressive than a lot of school leadership positions, most of them only being leadership positions nominally.</p>
<p>Ditto; a college admission consultant told me that top colleges value paid job experience. In the UC application, there is a category of work experience for you to enter.</p>
<p>I would much prefer a kid who has real-world leadership and job experience than one who makes up bogus fund-raisers to “demonstrate leadership.”</p>
<p>ok thanks guys for the advice, i’ll definitely write my activity essay on my job experience. </p>
<p>i do have a captain position and co-founded a club. The thing that got me worried is that i was reading Michigan U’s guideline and it says that it wants to see students gradually move up in rank in a club. Oh well, there’s nothing i can do about it.</p>