A Leadership Dilemma

br5555
Sun, 31 Jul 2016 15:51:37 +0000

So I guess in most respects I’m your typical “top” student: 2300 SAT, 800s on Math 2 and Chem, 5s on 6 AP tests and 4.0 UW GPA in a reasonably competitive school. I’m a rising senior and as you might imagine I’m applying to some extremely competitive schools like Columbia (probably my ED school), Harvard, Duke, UChicago, Stanford, etc. Unfortunately, I really don’t have anything in the way of “leadership positions”.

I’m not the president or even vice president of anything and I know that the only student from my school who was accepted to Columbia last year was the president of four different clubs. It’s not like I’m uninvolved or anything - I’m an officer in Mock Trial and an Event Captain in Scioly - but I’m not truly the “leader” anywhere. I know that every school like Columbia really emphasizes leadership so I don’t know what to do at this point. I was pretty sure I was going to become Mock Trial captain but at the last minute the coach decided not to have an election and picked her favorite student instead. I had put so much time into that I didn’t really try to get any other positions.

So what should I do at this point? Start some club and call myself the president? But the thing is I know it looks bad to start stuff in Senior year. So I have no idea what to do. I feel like my talents are going to be wasted because I don’t have this stupid “leadership” thing. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I could possibly do?