Lost Club Leadership Positions Unfairly
I'm a high school junior and my dream is to go to a T20 school. However, it feels more impossible than it ever has before.
I'm in four clubs and actively participate. When club elections came out, I applied, and didn't make it all four times. And you know the reason why? It's not that I'm not qualified. It's not because of my personality or anything. It's because of popularity and bias.
In two clubs, the chosen people were all very close to and in the same friend circle as the current president and vice president. In another, the popular kid, who did a horrible speech and made a bunch of brainrot jokes instead of talking about important issues or plans for the future of the club, was chosen. And in another, they didn't even have an application. They straight up just chose a sophomore for president since they are the president's close friend.
These seniors just trust their junior friends to run the club next year and then leave. It's not fair. I am more than qualified for these roles and I actually care about these clubs. I always participate and show up to meetings, and what's funny is that the people chosen for leadership roles literally never attend. And now, when I apply to college in the fall, admission officers are gonna look down at my application and be like, "How come you never even had a leadership role in any of these clubs you claim to be a huge part of?"
Why is everything centered around popularity and nepotism? I would understand if I got turned down if I were a lousy candidate, but losing because I'm not besties with the president is not fair. I literally see my dreams at a T20 slipping. My application right now is kinda subpar compared to other insane applicants, so these leadership roles were supposed to help bolster it.
Is all hope lost?