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Your Admissions Process Should Be as Exclusive as Your Club

ClubAdmissions is the documented, criteria-based admissions platform for private social clubs — every committee member scores independently, conflicts are declared and recorded, and your process is defensible to anyone who looks at it.

What is ClubAdmissions?

The document your attorney would want you to have

ClubAdmissions guides each committee member through an independent, blind evaluation of every applicant against your club's stated criteria. No member sees another's scores before they submit. Conflicts of interest are declared and recusals documented.

When the review is complete, you have a timestamped record of every committee member's independent evaluation — of every applicant, against the same criteria, every time.

The problem

Nobody designed the process to survive legal scrutiny

Private club admissions have always worked on judgment, reputation, and relationships. Nobody designed the process to survive legal scrutiny — they designed it to produce a member.

But the legal standard for private clubs is specific: a genuinely selective process, with meaningful criteria, applied consistently. Clubs that can't demonstrate that standard face real exposure — not just in lawsuits, but in the loss of the private club exemption that protects your right to select your own members.

Your admissions committee is making decisions that carry legal weight. The process should reflect that.

“We've always done it on relationships and feel. That worked until someone made a phone call.”

If a declined applicant ever challenged the club, could you produce a document showing that every committee member evaluated them independently, against the same criteria? For most clubs, the honest answer is no.

What ClubAdmissions does

Discretion your committee keeps, on a record you can produce

ClubAdmissions doesn't change who your club admits. It changes what the club can show about how that decision was made — without making the committee's work feel bureaucratic.

Blind, independent evaluation.
No committee member sees another member's scores before submitting their own. The evaluation reflects each member's actual judgment rather than the view of whoever spoke first at the last meeting.
Conflicts declared and recusals recorded.
A member who knows an applicant declares it before scoring, and the recusal is documented automatically. In a club where everyone knows everyone, that record is the difference between a relationship and an undisclosed conflict.
Your criteria, stated and applied.
Character and references, alignment with club values, member engagement potential, financial standing — or whatever your bylaws and membership committee actually use. Written down once, applied to every applicant the same way.
A link, not a login.
Committee members are club members, not staff. Each one gets a personal link and evaluates from any device — no accounts to create, no software to learn, nothing that makes serving on the committee feel like work.
Consistency across cycles.
The same criteria and the same process every cycle, regardless of who chairs the committee this year. Consistency applied over time is precisely what the private club standard asks you to demonstrate.
A defensible admissions record.
A complete, timestamped record of every member's independent evaluation of every applicant — the document that demonstrates your process was principled, consistent, and genuinely selective.

How it works

The same committee, on a documented process

1
Set up your admissions cycle
Add your applicants and your membership criteria. Invite your committee. Each member receives a link — no login required.
2
Committee scores independently and blind
Each member evaluates each applicant on your criteria without seeing any other member's scores. Conflicts are declared and recusals recorded automatically.
3
You get a defensible admissions record
A complete, timestamped record of every member's independent evaluation of every applicant — the document that demonstrates your process was principled, consistent, and genuinely selective.

Pricing

Your first admissions cycle is free

Run a complete cycle — your real applicants, your real committee — before you pay anything. No payment until your second cycle.

First admissions cycle free

ClubAdmissions is launching soon — join the waitlist and we'll share pricing before your club's next cycle.

  • Unlimited committee members
  • Unlimited applicants per cycle
  • Blind, independent scoring enforced
  • COI declaration and recusal documented
  • Your club's stated membership criteria
  • Full timestamped admissions record export
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Who this is for

Built for clubs that select their own members

If your admissions committee makes real decisions about real applicants — and your club's standing as a private organization depends on that process being genuinely selective — ClubAdmissions was built for you.

Country clubs
Where the membership committee has always worked on sponsorship and personal knowledge, and the waitlist makes every declination consequential.
City and social clubs
Where admissions turn on character, references, and fit with club values — judgments that are real but rarely written down anywhere.
Yacht and athletic clubs
Where the committee is drawn from the membership itself and nearly every member evaluating an applicant knows them personally.
General managers and membership directors
Responsible for the admissions process and for the club's legal standing as a private organization — usually the person an attorney's question lands on first.

Why clubs choose ClubAdmissions

Not a membership CRM. Not a billing system.

It protects the exemption.
The private club exemption depends on being genuinely selective, with meaningful criteria applied consistently. This is the record that demonstrates it.
It documents the conflicts.
In a club, committee members knowing applicants is normal — undocumented conflicts are the problem. Declaration and recusal are recorded as part of the process, not remembered afterward.
It doesn't change who you admit.
Your criteria, your committee, your judgment. ClubAdmissions changes what the club can show about how the decision was reached, not the decision itself.
It respects the committee's time.
Members evaluate from a link on any device, on their own schedule. Serving on the admissions committee shouldn't feel like taking a second job.
It survives a change of chair.
The criteria and the process persist across cycles, so consistency doesn't depend on who is running the committee this year.
It costs nothing to start.
Your first admissions cycle is free, with unlimited applicants and unlimited committee members.

ClubAdmissions does not manage your roster, your dues, or your events — your club management system already does that. It handles one thing: the admissions decision, and the record of how your committee reached it.

A general manager whose attorney has asked them to document their admissions process already knows they need this. Every GM who hasn't had that conversation yet is one declined applicant away from needing it.

Get in touch

ClubAdmissions is launching soon. Email us to join the waitlist — tell us what kind of club you run and how your admissions committee works today, and we'll let you know before your next cycle.

Your first admissions cycle is free — no payment until your second. Nothing to sign up for before you write to us.