Extracurricular leadership

MWolf
Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:50:14 +0000

First, there is a difference between Leadership and Leadership Positions. They are not the same thing at all. The elected president of the club has a leadership position. The person in the club who everybody can rely on, who is the person who the members turn to for advice, etc, is as much of a leader as the president or the treasurer.

However, there is no “need” for leadership. As an anecdote, my nephew was accepted to all the UCs, including both UCLA and Berkeley, and he had no leadership positions at all. He had band, some minor club activity, and he worked in a lab in UCR for two summers. His stats were excellent, though.