Leadership vs. Journalism?! HELP!!!

vanillabeans
Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:33:43 +0000

I’m a rising junior, and next year our school requires us to take either Leadership or Journalism as a seventh period class. I’ve already taken Leadership in my Freshman and Sophomore year, and was class president both years.

I’ve been contemplating whether or not I should take Journalism my Junior and Senior year reasons being that I:

a) will not be class president this year; my parents don’t want me to take Leadership if I don’t have a position…
b) won’t feel as overworked - Leadership is EXTREMELY time consuming and much more stressful that it needs be
c) like journalism in general and am ready to try something new

Will colleges think that because I switched to Journalism for two years instead of sticking to Leadership, I am not a committed student? I’d have two years of Leadership and two years of Journalism. I know that some colleges really like if students have demonstrated leadership qualities in classes, extracirricular activities, etc. If I do take Journalism, I’ll probably apply for a position on the city’s Youth Advisory Commission.