Clubs

bsmdman
Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:26:21 +0000

You don’t need to join a club to “be like everyone else.” Clubs actually are done so much that they don’t have a great impact on BSMD admissions to highly ranked programs. The fact that you don’t know what you want to do, but that you want to do a club, should tell you that it isn’t necessary. If you really want to do something, first decide on the issue and then decide on the best way to solve it. A club is most helpful in showing that a large group of people support a certain stance. Besides that, it can help solve certain things but I personally think they are particularly ineffective unless funded very well.

Seek out youth councils and government involvement opportunities as well. I found during high school that those were the most impactful after trying out numerous clubs and organizations run through my school which basically took stances but couldn’t do much. That isn’t always the case, though - some people do have large success with clubs.