What is the consensus on how much it helps boost a given student’s ECs to be an Student body officer. By this I mean a general student govt position, not the Student Body President, which is obviously a very involved leadership position, but things like Junior class treasurer, etc.
[edited to remove info specific to my kiddo’s school and the way their SBO positions work].
She should do what she wants - and that may include nothing at all (most schools don’t look at ECs) or being involved as a member.
Is there not an existing club already she can partake in - or a community activity to fulfill her needs?
Certainly doesn’t seem like the student body role is right for her - regardless of apps. It’s gaming - and I highly doubt it makes an impact.
ECs - in general - likely hold little overall weight.
Good luck.
The alternative is LITERALLY ANYTHING that she enjoys or will teach her new skills or will stretch her boundaries. Why only these alternatives? She can teach residents of a nursing home how to Zoom with their grandchildren, she can stack shelves at a food pantry, she can learn Morris Dancing, she can help adults prepare for their citizenship classes, she can work at the local historical society digitizing their early 20th century town hall meetings.
There are hundreds of ways a teenager can do interesting stuff in their spare time… if setting up/breaking down school events with people she doesn’t like is not of interest- why waste the time?
Adding: she has other ECs that she loves and is already engaged in, she just feels like she needs one more. (Lots of those around her have a long list of “impressive” ECs, so she is feeling “less than”.)
Sounds like the general advice is to skip it (which I agree with).
How many do you need ? If you have 3 and showed tenure and impact, a 4th isn’t moving the needle.
So many list 10-20. I’m sure in 99% of cases bs.
In your case you are trying to manufacture for admissions purposes.
And if she’s solid already I’m sure it will move the needle exactly zero. If…..
This feels a bit harsh 
- I think a lot of what kids do in high school they do, or in your words “manufacture”, for college admissions. I guess I am feeling a little defensive like the suggestion is my kid is somehow dishonest for considering being an SBO for her college application “resume”. That’s also why she’s going to take standardized tests and also part of the reason she cares about keeping a good GPA - I don’t think it is fair to label that activity as “gaming” and “manufacturing for the purposes of admission”.
Quality over quantity
If she is busy and challenged with her life right now, she does not need “One More”. Colleges don’t compare the length of the lists!
In early September next year, one of her current activities may need someone to go above and beyond on a new initiative- imagine how thrilled she’ll be that she has the bandwidth to take that on because she didn’t clog her schedule with something she wasn’t all that interested in!
One of my kids started reading/recording textbooks for vision impaired college students second semester of senior year (so too late for college applications). One of her HS teacher’s suggested it. My kid LOVED it. One day it was organic chemistry. The next session it was a journal article about Roman excavations of slave living quarters. And before you know it, you’re reading a macro-economic textbook. This had nothing to do with anything at all, except for whetting the kids appetite to get to college already!!!
There will be something your D can get excited about senior year if she really doesn’t have a full calendar.
If your D wants to take on the role and has time in her schedule to manage it then go for it. If that is not the case, then pass.
FWIW, I don’t expect one additional EC will make a material impact on college admissions. If the student wants to add something, it should be an activity that the student finds interesting/exciting. Note that a part-time job or volunteering in the community are also considered valuable ECs.
This is not a contest to have the longest list of ECs. A student should not be doing ECs to impress admissions officers.
Instead, each student should do what is right for them, do it well, and treat people fairly. Be genuine while doing something constructive.
This is also my understanding of the recommendation of the “applying sideways” blog on the MIT admissions web site (a quick Google search will find it). However, everyone in my family took this approach before we saw the blog, and it did seem to work for us even though each of us did very different things.