Is starting a finance club worth it?

I go to a non-target that does not have a finance club. I have good internship experience, a high gpa, and I’m involved in club sports and some other interest clubs. So with that information given, would it really be worth the amount of time and effort it would take to start and run a finance club at my school? I have a plan for how I would run the club etc. but after reading some other threads I’m starting to question the value gained from doing this. I’m trying to break into EB/MM btw. Thanks

 

Yea, if you’ve been thinking about it for a while and are really interesting in the process of creating/building up the club. If it’s purely for recruiting purposes, not worth it imo, unless you have no finance internship experience 

 

I think having the title "Founder" will help demonstrate your interest, especially coming from a non-target. That said, if you can make a legit finance club (not one one where everyone just dicks around for an hour), then I think that'll be pretty impressive. 

"Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."
 

Yeah I think so - if there's no other clubs like this and you're interested in recruiting, might even be worth it to make an IB club and help organize some recruiting events as well. 

 

Hey good for you. That sounds fun. If you decide to go for it that sounds great. Good luck. If not, still good luck to you. For what it’s worth, I helped start a club in high school for model Congress at the time and somehow someway the club is still in existence today (like a decade later) thanks to the hard work of the other people who helped start and actually have been running it to today in its current existence (which I think is now more model UN focused but more or less the same). It def feels nice. Though obv took work, so hard to gauge whether it is worth it. Def feels cool for me that I know I helped create/start something that is still going seemingly strong still today :). Again best wishes and good luck

 

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