How much does your title for leadership position matter??

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Do you have to be president/vice president or any club/organization for it to be worthy to put on your application or for it to look like "real" leadership experience? I've been on the executive board for a few clubs on campus but I'm not sure how much of an impact these leadership positions make:

- Publicity Chair for Pre-med society (1 semester), promote events of club
- Peer Leader (1 year) - peer advisor for group of freshmen throughout their 1st year and helped lead orientation events
- Service Chair for a racial identities group (ongoing) - everyone on the board works together and shares tasks but this is the title I have
- Associate Acquisitions Editor for an undergrad science journal (ongoing) - contact professors, department chairs, students about the journal, editor

I'm also a "Project Leader" for one of the events at a place I volunteer at, but I don't know if this counts as leadership.

Should I try to get some leadership positions with more responsibilities?

When it comes time to applying, should I list all of them as leadership anyway since I was elected to serve on the executive board for each?

Thanks in advance!
 
Not as important as your actual experience that you gained from holding that position. Leadership involves leading other people. That last one, associate acq. ed. doesn't seem like leadership at all. It looks like just a job with regular job duties.
 
You have not yet demonstrated any form of leadership. I suggest running for political office in 2012 as Christine O'Donnell's selection for Secretary of Health for the state of New Joizee.
 
Not as important as your actual experience that you gained from holding that position. Leadership involves leading other people. That last one, associate acq. ed. doesn't seem like leadership at all. It looks like just a job with regular job duties.

Should I not even include it then?
 
Sarcasm aside, absolutely include your role as editor in your "leadership" section on AMCAS.
 
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