<p>How much does having a state officer position help your chances of admission at HYPS and Wharton?</p>
<p>I recently ran and won the position of state officer for a very important business organization. How much does that benefit me for admissions? </p>
<p>Also, do colleges actually know what the responsibilities of state officers are? I know the title is extremely impressive because there are only so few state officers, and most members are unaware, but the state officer positions actually don’t have a lot of stuff to do because the actual advisors and state/international coordinators do the work.</p>
<p>Lastly, if colleges actually know that state officer positions don’t have a lot of work, will they be less impressed? And should I run for state officer next year too, if it’s not impressive? I know ti’s good to have consecutive years of involvement in ECs, but is that the same for leadership?</p>
<p>the schools you’re looking at admit those who demonstrate they’re smart, and in some way or another ambitious and effective. So, if you can relate how you used your office to change the mission, direction, or productivity of an organization, that is a plus. Just listing a title probably isn’t enough.</p>
<p>So the problem is, the state officer position doesn’t actually have a lot of stuff we can do. We get responsibility charts (like a checklist) and we basically have to go down that checklist. </p>
<p>How do I write an essay that presents myself as “changing the direction” of the organization then?</p>
<p>I’m guessing you’re the state officer of a student run organization.
Normally for such organizations there are around five state officer positions for each state.
there are 50 states.
that’s 250 students with the same position as you (or higher, if you were in a secretary-like position and they were president or governor).</p>
<p>It’s not the title that will help you but what you do with that title.
Go beyond that “checklist” they give you, and your leadership will really show, even if not on paper.</p>
<p>and stop thinking about what colleges think. otherwise your four years of hard work in high school does nothing for you as a person</p>
<p>Having the title will probably help, but it won’t make as much of a difference as one might think unless you do something meaningful with the position.</p>
<p>As for whether you should run again next year - if you enjoy it, run again; if you don’t enjoy it, don’t run again. There’s more to life than pleasing admissions offices.</p>
<p>Bump please. I’d like some more advice about how prestigious/impressive a state officer position is.</p>
<p>To be honest a lot of state officers don’t have good grades and don’t get into HYPS. But there are a few who have really good stats, which makes state officership rare among smart students. Will this help me? Considering that I have perfect grades (excellent class rank, 4.0 unweighted, will have great test scores, lots of APs)…</p>
<p>Chocofever, do you really care about the organization that you’re an officer for, or do you just want to flaunt how “prestigious/impressive” it is to have a state officer title? It sounds like the latter to me.</p>
<p>Are you asking how “impressive” it looks because you’ll base your decision on whether or not to pursue it? I suspect that is EXACTLY why you’re asking. On another thread, you asked how to stop appearing FAKE.</p>
<p>Here you go. FAKENESS alert! POSER alert!</p>
<p>You’re still not getting it. Fakers do it because they are wondering who is looking. People of impact do it because they know it needs to get done and really don’t care if others are paying attention or would ever put it on a resume.</p>
<p>When and if you ever strive for something that you could omit from your resume, then you’re leaving your robotic uber-GPA, programmed EC state of mind – otherwise…</p>
<p>If it is DECA State Officer is a solid EC but when you’re talking about HYPS and WHARTON, it’s not too impressive. If you find the position meaningful, you devote time towards it, and are able to articulate your commitment to being a state officer on your app then it is an asset…but otherwise colleges of that caliber may not be impressed.</p>
<p>You’re still not getting it. Fakers do it because they are wondering who is looking. People of impact do it because they know it needs to get done and really don’t care if others are paying attention or would ever put it on a resume.</p>
<p>I don’t agree with this at all. I agree with the first part, but people of impact can do both. You can take on something both because it looks interesting and exciting, and because you will learn a lot and enjoy it. That’s not mutually exclusive with realizing that a particular opportunity will also do a lot to bolster your outlook with others and be a really good line on your resume. People who have high impact usually do both, and are always mindful of where career moves may take them.</p>
<p>The difference is, fake people only do it for the prestige.</p>
<p>What’s wrong with being a faker or a poser…?
Your profile is benefited, other people are benefited, you gain experience.
Whether or not you were passionate about it is really irrelevant, as long as the lack of passion doesn’t affect your performance. </p>
<p>People who are passionate about sports do not enjoy practicing much (usually). But the ends justify the means. What if your passion is for college, for your future?</p>