<p>^Which sucks, honestly. Some may think they “deserve” to get points for the minimum amount of work, but who has to pick up the slack for all of the lazy people?</p>
<p>In a Key Club in which a lot of the members were downright resentful and *****y that they had to do anything in order to remain in the club, the officers ended up facilitating AND doing most of the volunteer work ourselves. This is not fair at all, especially because the club leadership gets blamed when people bail out on their obligations to volunteer. In my opinion, the people only interested in getting the minimum amount of points in order to pad their resumes should not only be expelled from the club, but should have it noted on their transcript or something.</p>
<p>What would work better than points is if club supervisors actually started supervising, and ensured that each club member’s behavior was noted.</p>
<p>I am new to this! I hope I am posting my question in the right place. I am in the procese of switching high schools. I am curently attending Fordham Prep in the Bronx and for financial reasons I might have to transfer out to Yonkers High school in N.Y (IB program school). In your opinon which shcool out of the two is most likly to serve me right when it is time to apply to colleges. Especialy pre-med schools. Thank you</p>
<p>^ I get what you mean by that. Our key club does it, but not so much monetarily. People make sandwiches to get hours. They barely come to club meetings or participate, but they make ten sandwiches to donate to a shelter and they get ten hours. So stupid.</p>
<p>gahh i know this girl who was in this club for one year… she was this chic that would just hang around with my friend and I and she would just follow us to the meetings, never really “joining” the club. Everybody assumed she was a part of it, and the club was so big, no one bothered to check. She would just sign in for the meetings (never paid dues) and she got added to the email list. So she did nothing the entire yr (wsnt even a member!) and then she ran for officer. and there was no one running against her. so she obviously won. and as officer she did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. and on her resume, she wrote that she served 350 hours in that club. thats two hours a day for a school year. which is impossible because the club is not that active at all. the president probably has less than a 100 hours.actually i know she has less than a hundred hours because I talked to her. She has also made up fake positions && other fake hours, and just think it really sucks that she’s doing that. I’m not hoping she gets caught because thats kind of mean but i mean shes ruining other people’s chances by lying about her qualifications.</p>
<p>Clubs are so overrated. The majority are absolutely worthless and do nothing but pad to begin with. Meeting once a week, two weeks, month, whatever it may be shouldn’t qualify for you an added advantage. I personally think extra volunteer hours to a “good” cause or a research project are worth much more than 90% of clubs such as Beta and NHS at most cases.</p>
<p>Colleges aren’t stupid. They can tell when you are resume padding. When people list 8-10 clubs but have no leadership positions or nothing to show for the effort they’ve contributed to the club, colleges generally understand it’s just a ‘filler club.’</p>
<p>As someone who dislikes all the bureaucratic b.s. required of members in the honor society, I am highly opposed to this point system as well. I dropped out of the honor society because there were too many papers that needed to be signed and too many hours that needed to be fulfilled. This compulsory system really defeats the purpose of philanthropy or truly enjoying what you do. I still do all the community service, tutoring, etc required of honor society people but I just don’t have the official title.</p>
<p>There’s a club at my school that goes on a Mexico community service trip every March-- hardly anyone came every week, and now that it’s almost March, all these random kids are showing up. SO ANNOYING</p>
<p>If you join a club - guess what, you’re just like every other person who’s in high school. Spending an hour a month as a Key Club member will do nothing for your app. By the time I finished applying to colleges, I didn’t even bother to list that I was a member of NHS or CSF or this club or that club. It’s literally worthless. I feel it actually dilutes my main extracurriculars.</p>