<p>It would seem very hard for an admissions person to determine the value to a student of being in any EC by name of organiztion and title. If one wants to make their involvment in an EC meaningful on a college application, they should tie their involvment and what it did for them into one of their essays. </p>
<p>My son was in Boy Scouts for many years. He is a hard worker but not a real born leader type person. The scouts in the troop elected the senior patrol leader and he appointed other scouts to fill the positions on his “staff”. My son demonstrated his leadership by being the troop quartermaster for about 3 years straight or 6 different senior patrol leaders. They all recognized his hard work and diligence in performing that role and so he kept getting asked to do it. The postion also fitted his demeaner quite well. He could do his job mostly in the background and work with a subset of the entire troop. So, you don’t always have to win the popularity contest to be a leader.</p>