RootBeerCaesar

Me and One of my friends at my school are thinking of starting a High school branch of the local Democratic Party [For young ppl it is called "Young democrats"], I already talked with the party chairman that is in the city I live near to (about 150,000 pop. city) and he said he would see about it, and said it might be a good idea.

While I'll be doing it whether or not it goes on the college resume or not, if I put it on there and a Republican Admissions Counseler read it, would they have a strong disdain for that activity since they are afraid i'll be an active democrat in college too?

I know college admissions officers aren't 'supposed' to be partisan, but obviously they would have a strong disdain for anything that hurts their party and party ideals, to advance their political side on campus along with the votes.

So if I do it, should I put it on my resume or not? [Also im starting this in my junior year - is that a negative?]

fabrizio

I believe that even if the admissions officer who goes over your application is a Republican, she will like that you are involved at your age. Our demographic is notorious for lousy voter turnout.

You say that you are starting this your junior year. I will assume that you are C/O 2009. If this is so, then great - the next election is in 2008 and you can organize a voter registration drive in the fall of 2008 before you send in applications. If you do, in fact, organize such a drive through your initiative and leadership, that will look very good on your application.

Put this on your resume only if you have done something that you can write about.

If you start the club and really involve yourself with it, it will not matter that you started it in your junior year.

aristotle1990

Most college adcoms are Democrats anyway; you've got nothing to worry about.

bigreddawgie

I agree with aristotle

Sheed30

lol, yea i know, unless you;re going to a conservative school.

RootBeerCaesar

ha alright thanks, i would be really involved in it since I'm extremely passionate about politics anyway, and over the summer I'm going to be working with the party a bit for some stuff so I can get a gist of things before starting the club in september

bad1017

Another thing to look into is volunteering for your local electoral board. I did this last year and it was a lot of fun. Basically on election night, the various polling sites call the electoral board to report their results. I got to answer the phones and then also got to call the AP wire with updates when 25% came in, 50% came in, and 75% came in (counting absentee ballots took too long and I wasn't able to stick around until they had been counted since I had school the next day). Call up your local board. I'm sure they'd be excited for an interested youth to help them out!

RootBeerCaesar

sounds like a great idea, ill see if i can do that for when the next election comes [even though for my local area i have no idea when that is]