<p>Hey guys, I was wondering if a cabinet postion in a club like key club/nhs is viewed more highly than a cabinet position in a lesser known club like scientist club. My friend told me that Key club cabinet and NHS cabinet are more prestigious, but I felt that these clubs are too common among applicants and that a lesser known club would be more unique. Please clarify. thanks. ( i am not joining just for college, I just tend to like other clubs instead of key club/nhs, and I was wondering if I am missing out on something)</p>
<p>I also want to know if Key Club and NHS is worth joining in the first place, since it is so common among college applicants. Maybe I’m better off pursuing better ec’s?</p>
<p>Well… a lesser known club can seem like complete BS. Key club is at least recognized on a National scale as a club that “actually does something”</p>
<p>What matters most is what you accomplish in the club, not what the club is. Virtually all school clubs are regarded the same. More impressive are state or national positions in clubs.</p>
<p>darn, cause i only hold cabinet positions in lesser known clubs.</p>
<p>@ Gryffin, yeah but like every single person applying to Ivy leagues is president of NHS/Key Club…it just seems so…bland</p>
<p>Key Club is great in that there are many different executive positions that you can take, on a school, local, regional, state, then national level that each have their own huge responsibilities and purposes. Perhaps you should just join as a member first and see what it’s all about, then start talking to your upperclassmen that are officers who are friends with others in higher positions. That’s how our LTG first started out - a freshmen who wasn’t even sure if he wanted to join Key Club.</p>
<p>And again, it really is what you want to do within Key Club that makes all the difference, it’s not just the label.</p>
<p>“but like every single person applying to Ivy leagues is president of NHS/Key Club…it just seems so…bland”</p>
<p>What matters is what people do with their offices. Some people are presidents of NHS and Key Clubs that do absolutely nothing because the officers are interested only in titles that decorate their resumes. Some people who aren’t officers do impressive things such as creating fundraising projects, organizing tutoring sessions, and doing other things that make a difference in their schools and communities.</p>
<p>The colleges for which ECs can help with admission (and those tend to be the very top colleges that have an overabundance of high stat applicants) can tell from recommendations, essays and interviews which applicants were leaders and which were only leaders on paper.</p>