<p>Like what qualifies as a leadership role?</p>
<p>sigh. If you need to ask, then it won’t matter</p>
<p>You don’t need any: No one asks an accomplished athlete or artist why they aren’t president of the French Club. Or the student who is helping support his or her family by working 15hr/week. Those selective schools that care about your EC, just want to see impact and accomplishment, which they don’t define as ‘was president of 3 clubs.’ </p>
<p>What can you do to show accomplishment and impact? You can find something you care about deeply and then figure out how to ‘leave a legacy’ - that is, make an impact that will persist after you have left that activity. Look at what you like to do and think about how to take it to another level - if you have a skill, can you teach it? If you have an idea to make something in your community better, can you implement? If you document something for posterity that matters, you are leaving a legacy. You’ll find that if you are really accomplishing something, you will rarely have the time or bandwidth to do more than one or two because true engagement is consuming.</p>
<p>Of course, if you want to be editor of the school paper, that’s fine…every school in the country has a school paper and 4 kids who are ‘editors.’ And you can throw in President of the Spanish Honor Society too. It shows engagement and demonstrates popularity with your peers and maybe, sometimes, leadership. But it’s not required or even especially impressive.</p>