Best Way To Start a Club in High School for Ivy League Admissions (2024)

Start your high school clubs the right way. Learn from the mistakes of others. Be better.
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Contents:
0:00 - intro
0:39 - the idea
2:02 - foundation & mistakes
3:28 - the blueprint (actionable)
7:21 - getting ahead // pre-planning
9:32 - attracting members
13:28 - useful tips

[@preachingp]

or, at your first club meeting you could just watch a Preaching P video 🤷🏽‍♂

[@KianShirazi]

my guy dropped the hardest cast analogy in the intro and thought we wouldn't notice 🔥🗣

[@LockIn367]

yessir

[@darshpatel3427]

bro i was bouta start a club this week. this came at the best time. preach bro

[@vaibhavsrivastava7455]

Seriously, I'm tired of you.

[@vaibhavsrivastava7455]

Brainwashing people, I used to follow you back then, not gonna do it anymore I'm done with these filthy colleges, It's better if I simply compete and get admitted to one based on my scores.

[@SportingCubed]

Preaching P Fan Club

[@Cube_In_Space]

Nice Cubing YT Channel, sub-9 average with Roux is pretty dang good

[@pomegranate10017]

yesss

[@theflyingcrabs166]

Your videos are amazing, I'm a rising junior who is planning on starting a STEM club focused around getting peers to start independent or collaborative stem research projects. This video made me recognize and learn from a lot of my flaws and I learned so much. All of your videos are very unique and are always engaging and relatable. Most inspiring KZbinr out there.

[@escapefromthecityand]

Okay but that club to cast comparison was seamless and flawless. This info doesn't even apply to me but that alone is making me stay subbed

[@srinitapaulchowdhury2581]

U ACC MADE THE VIDEO!!!! THANK U SO MUCH

[@ak-wq6di]

Yo preaching p, thank you for your content and help man. I’m going to be attending a top 5 computer science university next year and I couldn’t be any more excited!

[@trees6640]

Another 🔥video! Preaching P is the Goat

[@user-lz5wx2cy3g]

My g, you r the goat fr fr. Im in MYP 4 (grade 9) and ur vids inspired me to work on my extracurriculars early. Now I have an internship under my belt that is worth of being put on my application. (its practically impossible to get those in india). love u bro keep up the great work ur inspiring many our school has a cult of you 💀💀

[@elcubocuadrado1160]

I wish I had this video 6 months ago when I started my own math club, I went through these steps when I stared it, so see in it all the steps in a 15 min video in some way is very impresive.

[@xenon9717]

The first school related channel that actually helped me lol

[@AKD-le2kb]

Lets go pratik!!

[@clipchampion7594]

fire intro analogy

[@thiagogregory1]

this is actually a good video

[@akshajv6093]

Pratik. Your videos are always so helpful! How important is the number of members in your club for college applications. Like will they not even consider clubs that have too few members?

[@PurpleGirl-im9bq]

Can you make a video on middle school stem opportunities that are prestigious? Thank you and also great video!

[@alithemathguy]

I inherited one of the lazy clubs and I’m trying to turn it around. 2 years ago someone started a lazy club for their college apps and just got all their friends in it as well. There were like a few others who joined (like me), but it was mostly her and her friends. I know a good amount of people so I got 12 sign-ups when I marketed it at the club-fair but only 4 people regularly show up. That would be fine but my school says if you don’t average 10 members you don’t get to exist next year. Also the person appointed one of her friends as VP(I was already VP) and I think she doesn’t care about the club that much either, but tbf she’s a senior and I send the club emails out like 3 AM that same day.

[@twintek1099]

Bro. It's over for me for US admissions... in the UK we don't have half as many awards/competitions, and we can't just go and "make" clubs.

[@kitkatkatehh2400]

I don’t even take SAT/ACT nor am I an international student lol. I take the HKDSE and I still watch his videos just because I love his way of talking and presenting his ideas haha❤

[@gamalrawan]

i started a cooking club towards the end of my freshman yr but we officially started meetings sophomore yr. we have a consistent amount of members at our meetings, but it’s a bit difficult to manage the club at times as our school doesn’t have any home-ed classes or much options so we’re usually working with make-shift equipment inside of our advisor’s classroom. im not sure if i should keep it running junior yr or divert my attentions toward something else. its not that i don’t enjoy the club, i do. its just I often find myself overwhelmed with it and feel as if it has little to do with what i want to pursue as someone who hopes to go down the premed track. i have two other positions in two clubs that i nowhere feel the same sort of weight or stress over, but that could be because i am the president of the cooking club so it might feel more overwhelming over a smaller position in the other clubs. if anyone has any advice, id really appreciate it.

[@chloedo8764]

Preach p disc 🙏

[@mahabubajannathashi1199]

Why didn’t I find this video earlier 😭

[@sh33ps]

hey! do you make videos on success during college? im a freshman and need guidance lol

[@2mellow35]

What you're saying is that I should have mentioned that I restored the student body in my high school because I wanted to become the school's president.

[@JoseLopez-zp2ui]

These clubs are business at this point business plan, gathering people, speed, marketing, budget

[@thiagogregory1]

why do you shake to communicate? yk you can talk normally right?

[@LockIn367]

Hey Preaching P, I need some help cause I got one year left after moving from Texas and into my new school. I have lots of passion into creating a computer science club and hosting competitions that we do with group members, but the problem I've been trying to ask my self is that I only got one year left which is my senior year due to the moving. I just feel that I don't have enough time to actually get the club up and running for long. :(

[@burrito2981]

me watching literally all this like im not leaving in diffrent country, on diffrent continent, with totally diffrent education system, like with not at all similar college addmissions system and without any intrest in studying it in the usa LMAO

[@katienzhao]

could you make a video about overcoming senioritis?

[@arnavgupta3103]

Hello

[@CaesarPlayss]

This club culture doesn’t exist in India I believe?

[@faber5573]

Too late man..... I already started a chess club and we were literally just playing chess😂

[@hana-ov1ju]

I was also thinking about starting a competitive chess club but when we had one 2 years ago nobody showed up and I played with the teacher 💀

[@Fthesehoes]

Did you see my DM

[@devmonkeyy]

consistent schedule... first robotics...🤣

[@akshajv6093]

Iro

[@user-jc5ql5cd9z]

Playing clash Royale 😭

[@ShutupAndDrinkYourGinOliver]

Preach, dude! My fail-proof strategy that led to my acceptance as a 17 year old college student for an elite Ivy League higher learning institution: [disclaimer: I applied to colleges as a female mixed-race 16 year old MINOR. There is no such thing as Ivy League 'affirmative action' for minors to be admitted as college students simply because it's a liability for any higher learning institution to take on the burden of responsibility for any damages/injuries/abuses of minors incurred on campus. Thus, I was an exceptional 16/17 year old candidate for college admissions!] *1)* I attended Brighton High School in Rochester's town of Brighton, and I passed my annual standardized tests for New York State Regents [disclaimer: at the time of my high school attendance, Brighton High School was regarded as one of the best public schools in the nation] *2)* I took both the SAT and the ACT, and I submitted my ACT scores because they were slightly more impressive *3)* Starting at age 15, I was employed at a part-time union job at a grocery store, until I resigned to become a 17 year old college student *4)* At the age of 16, I completed a Summer internship in the field of study that I would aspire to complete a four-year college degree in *5)* I requested a reference letter from the most well-rounded teacher at Brighton High School *6)* I was interviewed for an Ivy League college by an Ivy League alumnus resident of the town of Brighton BEFORE the Ivy League Admissions Office interviewed me again on a college campus *7)* At the age of 16, I joined the Students Against Driving Drunk membership association at Brighton High School *8)* At the age of 16, I VOLUNTEERED as an after-school tutor for underprivileged children in Rochester. This meant that on various weeknights I chose to leave my privileged suburb in order to travel to the 'inner city', via a public transit bus, just to help disadvantaged kids! *I cannot stress enough how important creating extracurricular opportunities that HELP YOUR COMMUNITY impresses Ivy League Admissions Counselors!!!* Not only was I accepted into the Ivy League as a 17 year old college student, but I was also accepted into the 4 other safety schools that I applied to. I chose not to attend the Ivy League school because I was also accepted into the most expensive elite collegiate consortia in the entire world. Therefore, I don't always believe that attending the Ivy League is the best option for every applicant, but my Ivy League college acceptance letter is one of the proudest awards that I've received in my lifetime!

[@27koko]

hello, congratulations on your acceptance! i’m also a high schooler in rochester, but i attend aquinas. i’m currently in my junior year and i have so much questions, is it alright if i could message you about any of them? thanks!

[@saiabijayganeshkumar5773]

Hey pratik I started a club a few months ago and only 2 people show up to the meetings😢