When applying to a college, my friend was also applying to our school’s chapter of the National Honor Society. Because she didn’t want to have it left out of her application, she put it on her application even though she wasn’t and hasn’t been accepted yet. She plans on emailing the college if she’s not accepted and attempt to explain the situation, but she is really worried that if the college finds out before she has the chance to contact the admission’s office or misinterprets her reason, she’ll suffer consequences. What will happen to her if she’s not accepted and the college finds out before she can explain, and if she can explain, will they be angry at the student or misunderstand?
Boy, NHS isn’t worth lying on your application! It is pretty irrelevant in the admissions process. She should take it off any apps she has not submitted yet. She could always send an update later to admissions via email if she gets in.
I don’t know what to say about apps she has already submitted. Whether she tells them herself or they find out another way if she doesn’t get in, the optics of having exaggerated are not great. They won’t “misunderstand” – she stated that she has accomplished something that she hasn’t. That is pretty clear cut.
Did she write that she was in it or projected to be in it?
Worry about your application, not your freind’s application.
@misterscream it’s nice of you to care for your friend is she a relatively good student? it wasn’t very difficult to get into NHS, at least at my old high school she should be fine but like @intparent hilariously said NHS really isn’t worth it at all it’s just three words on an application
She’s a very good student with about a 4.0 average gpa and she said she was in it her 12th grade year and that she had less than 2 hours of activity in it
Let it go. Let it go, La-la-la-la-la-la la.
the Frozen song.
Take it off all future applications until she’s actually in it. Then forget about it. No sense drawing attention (which will be negative no matter what her intentions), and if you can’t draw attention, no sense to worry about it. As dusty feathers said, Let it Go!
NHS is very highly overrated.
Honestly, NHS is so not impressive that college will think it is not worth their time to fact-check even if it seems out of place.
not in it = shouldn’t list.
UPDATE: she was accepted into NHS
To any college applicants, this is a great example of: 1. a tempest in a teapot. 2 Much ado about nothing. 3. They will not give a fig about NHS and they probably won’t consider it worth their time to read an email saying you are in it. 4 It is so underwhelming that if you bothered to fib about it, and then fessed up in an email, they might just toss your app because it shows lack of creativity as far as fibbing goes. 5. Just don’t fabricate anything in the app, because it can come back to bite you in the backside. It isn’t worth it.
Anyway, OP, a lucky escape for your friend, phew!
Don’t even list NHS on your application. It’s a waste of an extracurricular space.
If you feel that NHS doesn’t matter and shouldn’t be listed on your application then you shouldn’t bother joining. That solves everything for you. And that applies to any EC - if you don’t find it enriching then don’t do it. If you find it enriching then it should be on your application because it makes you who you are.