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08-11-2005, 08:18 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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| Which is better: Starting a club or earning your way up?
Which would be more impressive?
Starting a club/newspaper in soph/junior year and becoming a president straight away
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Joining a club in frosh year and working your way up to President/VP by senior year?
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08-11-2005, 08:43 PM
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I am not sure, but I am thinking about starting a new club at my school. We have like 3. I would think that starting a new one is more impressive because it means you took iniative. Starting your own club probaly also means that you'll be president of it, so I dont know how seriously they would take it.(I hope they take it seriously). Working your way up means that you had to prove something in order to get into that leadership role. Those are just my thoughts, but I am not an expert.
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08-11-2005, 11:08 PM
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I don't know but at our school, the academic clubs don't have captains or presidents or any other officer elections so I started my own.
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08-12-2005, 12:11 AM
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what about joining an already-formed club/staff and becoming president/editor right away?
That should be thrown into the mix  | |
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08-13-2005, 08:45 AM
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seniority doesn't allow that sort of thing... | |
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08-13-2005, 10:17 AM
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What tends to impress colleges is what you accomplished in whatever position you have. There are plenty of students who hold positions with great titles, but no responsibilities.
For top colleges, those positions don't impress. In fact, top colleges would be much more impressed by a student who has no title, but has accomplished a lot of things (such as if a student independently got people involved in a fund raising project that donated to a nonprofit) than by a student who became president of an organization that did nothing.
You may wonder how colleges know what the student actually did: recommendations, interview and the student's essay.
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08-13-2005, 10:21 AM
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There both equally good. My school has well over 20 clubs, so there's not much need for anymore, and when new ones are created, they usually end up dying out after a month or two. Earning a position is also a heck a lot easier than starting a club that's successful. But do what you want to do.
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08-13-2005, 10:24 AM
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Well my school has 1 club. Ya I know...sad..
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08-13-2005, 03:43 PM
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I think that working your way up is much more impressive, unless you wind up starting a club that accomplishes great things and you emphasize how important it is to you and how much time you put into it, etc.
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08-13-2005, 05:34 PM
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Starting a club is simple but maintaining it is VERY hard.You are better off working your way up, but if for some reason you think you wont get voted for the "popularity contest" then i think starting one is your only option.
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08-13-2005, 07:23 PM
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which is better, starting a new business and being CEO, or working your way up to CEO of a major company?
probably the 2nd one because you may have accomplished more and can learn a lot, but starting a new business shows a lot of initiative and leadership too.
of course, the best would be to start a new business, be its CEO, and grow that business into a power in the industry that rivals the existing major companies.
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that's just my analogy.
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08-13-2005, 07:54 PM
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dooit ...would you be doing this because you really want to do an activity and the 1 club in your school is not it....or for just the resume credit? If you really want the activity start the club...if you are that shallow and just want to do it to impress the college ...just lie its less effort. i dont mean to be rude but you need to question your motive here.....sorry to be the skunk at the picnic...
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08-13-2005, 10:40 PM
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starting a club and being president of it as long as you can....
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08-14-2005, 10:09 AM
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#14 | | Senior Member
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Well the one club is robotics, and the two I'm making have to do with business. I'm planning to apply to UPENN M&T ED. So yes, they are my passion .
hurdlesrock, do you mean you can be kicked off?
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08-14-2005, 11:23 AM
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If you had elections for your officers every year, like most clubs, then you could definitely lose your position.
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