<p>and then in the same year, you dissolved it? Would it be worth putting down in the first place?</p>
<p>Yes, do not put it in. It doesn’t indicate passion, hard work, or dedication (no offense).</p>
<p>It really depends. How much work did you put into it? Why did you dissolve it? Do you have more “worthy” ECs to put?</p>
<p>Not really worth mentioning as an EC, but if there is an interesting story behind its creation and dissolution, it could be fodder for an interesting essay. Was there some great passion that inspired you to create the club? Was there some disheartenment when it folded? Did you fight hard to keep it going but lose? Did the experience teach you anything of significance?</p>
<p>did the club dissolve by itself or did you dissolve the club while there were a lot of members still in it?</p>
<p>It’s not worth putting; unless there were extraordinary circumstances to give a good reason for dissolving the club (and you’d have to explain in one of your essays), it only makes you look bad.</p>
<p>I still don’t see how starting a club, even if it didn’t sustain for a long time, would make you look “bad.” It shows initiative, drive, leadership, etc. Colleges aren’t so harsh.</p>
<p>^I’m with kyle on this one. Your limited info is lacking, but, you cannot always expect a club that you started to thrive…if you’ve done something in the club, you can put it down.</p>
<p>it could look bad in the sense that although you show initiative you were not able to commit. As a results you might portray yourself as someone who isn’t dedicated and is a quitter. </p>
<p>However, the real case could be different…you really have to give more detail…</p>
<p>Or it could show that the person is willing to put himself out there and accepts that failure is sometimes inevitable.</p>
<p>It’s not my club. My friend wanted to ask me that since she started a “Book Club” where ppl would read books and discuss about them all day. I took a peek and like, 4/5 sessions, people were just fooling around, do their own homework, or gossiping. Eventually, people didn’t come and I heard during the last meeting, only the co-founders came.</p>
<p>Now she wants to know whether she should put that on her transcript.</p>
<p>bump .</p>
<p>It shouldn’t be your main EC/emphasized unless you have a reason for it’s downfall that’s clear and sound. Otherwise to colleges, it indiciates;</p>
<ol>
<li>Lack of passion</li>
<li>Lack of leadership ability (couldn’t get members to come to meetings, etc.)</li>
<li>Lack of other activities (because you are using this instead of some different ECs.)</li>
</ol>
<p>Top 15 Colleges are quite harsh with things like this, because they have thousands of Eagle Scout, SG Presidents, National leaders, Intel Winners, all applying, so this would be a very uncompetitive EC. In my case, for example, throughout the years me and my friends went through about 3 clubs that we all experimented with and founded. Two went for two years, one went for 1 year. I’m not putting a single mention of them on my app because I have more things to put on.</p>
<p>It’s possible to make it good, but honestly it’s such a difficult positioning technique that has such a high chance of failure/red-flagging that unless you dont have other major leadership, dont put it down</p>
<p>would it also be a bad idea to include an EC you only did for one year, but in that one year you got an award?</p>
<p>in my case, i did one year of deca, a business marketing club, and i was top ten at the state level in my competition. however, i stopped because i felt it was sort of a waste of my time and that it’d be better to focus on my classes and put more energy into clubs where i have leadership positions.</p>