<p>Should I run for class council president in order to boost my chances at HYPMS? I don't really have much to do junior or senior year, but I'm not really in to class council either. However, there's little competition this year, so it's likely that I'll win the spot if I run. Should I run for president for the sake of boosting my chances at HYPMS, or will it have a negligible effect on admissions? If you're curious to see my slightly above average academic and extracurricular achievements to assess whether running for president will have a boost in my admissions, see here: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/1101842-how-bad-my-situation-what-my-chances-princeton-ea-class-2016-a.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/1101842-how-bad-my-situation-what-my-chances-princeton-ea-class-2016-a.html</a></p>
<p>No. </p>
<p>If your only incentive is to boost your college app, then it’s not worth it. You’re not going to do nearly as well as someone who legitimately wants to help the class out and in the long run, both you and your class will be worse off.</p>
<p>Also, colleges find being ASB president much more respectable than being a class president. Anyone can be a class president, and it’s more of a popularity contest than ASB.</p>
<p>Screw you and everyone else that does things just to “boost college apps” and try to fluff your image. Do it because you have a passion for it, do it to be a true leader, do it to help people. Don’t do it to create a fake image of yourself.</p>
<p>Will you contribute anything worthwhile? Doesn’t matter if you’re doing it to make yourself appear better for college applications. If you’re going to do something important as president, then go for it. If not, forget it.</p>
<p>Don’t do it to fluff your college app. Do it if you want to help your class.
As the student in charge of the whole student government at my school, it is obvious who is on their respective classes council to fluff their app or because they truly care.</p>
<p>This education system is teaching idiots like our OP that you have to do good things just for the purpose of getting into college.</p>
<p><em>Sigh</em></p>
<p>Please don’t.</p>
<p>I’m going to voice an unpopular opinion, but hey–someone’s gotta say it.</p>
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<p>Then go ahead. </p>
<p>Let’s face it: how many people actually run for ASB positions without any intent of boosting college apps? How many people are doing it purely for enjoyment? And while there certainly are people who choose to run out of enthusiasm and school spirit, application padding is always a driving force of leadership positions.</p>
<p>If you can contribute your part to the school as class council president, then do it. You might even be preventing the school from getting an even more college-oriented, ambitious application-padding brat from taking the position. If you think about it that way, your intentions are not all that bad.</p>
<p>^That’s like excusing the person who robbed the bank of $1,000 saved the bank the trouble of another person being robbed of $10,000. That there might be someone else who’s more of a tryhard than the OP doesn’t justify the OP’s intentions.</p>
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<p>I disagree. It’s usually a nice benefit, yeah, but people don’t always become leaders with college in the forefront of their decision…I know that my friends and I haven’t taken leadership positions for college anyway.</p>
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<p>A person is more likely to contribute significantly if motivation comes intrinsically.</p>
<p>That’s crazy talk, Francaisalamatt! The only reason to do anything in life is to exaggerate your interests to get into college, duh!</p>
<p>You guys are cum swindling grade grubbers.</p>
<p>I’m off to beat up some nerds.</p>
<p>Not gonna lie, but 90 percent of the people who run for Student Council at my school do it for college. I’m not trying to condone it, just an observation. I honestly don’t see a problem in running, as long as you contribute a decent amount of time and effort to the Council</p>