<p>I want to start a computer science club at my school, but would doing this be worth my time? Will this help me in the long run?</p>
<p>Only if you get something out of it / do something with it. Starting a club just to start a club won’t get you that far.</p>
<p>If you like it,
If you don’t care that nobody else comes to the meeting,
If you are ready to work on it, despite not being the
president/vice-president/whatever else,
If you don’t care how it will look on your college application,
(Or, if you at least can show on that paper that you started this club for yourself and other students, not for College X (although, it’s better to be honest, I think)),</p>
<p>Then you should definitely found the Computer Science Club in your school</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Make sure there are ppl actually interested in it at ur school though. I tried starting a programming club last year and nobody wanted to join so that sucked</p>
<p>No, we really don’t care. Use the time to make some kind of cool computer thing instead.</p>
<p>SteelPangolin, are you an admissions officer?</p>
<p>No, he is not. He’s a student.</p>
<p>Here, I agree completely with Steel. (It is just a personal opinion but I did have the privilege of being on the committee for a while.) Starting clubs is not good in and of itself. If you use that time to actually DO something productive that leaves a mark and can be marveled at, like write an impressive program, it will be better.</p>
<p>If you really feel strongly about the club, do it, but if not, don’t start a club just because that’s supposed to be good.</p>
<p>i got into caltech and i started the computer club at my high school</p>
<p>that being said, the club wasn’t started with the intention of having it look good on college apps.</p>
<p>as to what effect the club might have had on my college admissions, it might have helped show i was interested in science. it might have demonstrated an ability to organize things. but overall, i don’t really think it made much of a difference.</p>
<p>start the club if u want to, but if ur just doing it for college, its probably not worth it</p>
<p>If you want to start the club, by all means start it, have fun with it, and get all you can out of it. If you want to get in to Caltech by starting a computer club, well, good luck. A lot of people apply to Caltech who are similar to you, and I’ll bet that several have started computer clubs. If you’re counting on it to be unique and show how you stand out, merely starting a computer club isn’t going to do it. If you do more than just start it, and do something truly unique and different, it will make a positive impact on your application.</p>
<p>None of us are saying “don’t start a computer club”- but if you have to ask “will it be worth it” in regards to college admissions, then the answer is probably not. Do high school activities because you like them, not because you’re trying to get into college.</p>
<p>Thank you everyone! :)</p>
<p>As others have said, make sure there’s interest. We have an astronomy club at our school, last year we had one meeting and that was to take a club photo for the yearbook. ;)</p>
<p>We had a chemistry club at our school that was run by regular chem students (as opposed to honors and AP chem) and apparently its purpose was to tutor students in chemistry. Needless to say very few people joined.</p>
<p>I was the self appointed dictator of my school’s tech club. We were basically a geeky bunch that had special permission to eat lunch in the computer lab. My senior year was semi-productive because the technology director person had us do a bit of work on the school’s web site. Other than that it was completely informal.</p>
<p>Making up clubs for picture day can be great fun (especially when you and all of your friends are wearing lab coats 
)</p>