<p>In the common app, there is a place where it wants you to name any honors that you have received and gives national merit, and cum laude society as examples.</p>
<p>On the other it wants you to list extracurricular activities and clubs.</p>
<p>So my question is: is National Honor Society considered an honor or club?
I don't know which to write where, so any help would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Not sure what you mean by “Science Honors,” but I consider NHS an extracurricular.</p>
<p>Well, there’s this thing called science honor in our school. You can join if you meet the GPA and AP class requirements. Once you’re in, you get a certificate that says “Excellence in Science”
I’m pretty sure its considered an honor but wasn’t sure about NHS.</p>
<p>Depends on what your school’s NHS does. If you guys do community service, it’s a club. If it’s just membership with no activity (yet), it’s an honor. Also, you can put this in whichever section so as to make your application look fuller. Ex: if you only have 4 awards, put NHS as an honor to completely max out the Honors space. If you have 6 activities, put NHS as a club.</p>
<p>Can I put it both as honor and a club?
We don’t do community service together or anything but we are required to do 20 hours each semester on our own if we still want to be members.</p>
<p>That’s really more of a club. I wouldn’t double up–counselors understand NHS and what it means to be a part of it.</p>
<p>What Wej said. I personally put it as an honor because we havn’t done any community service at all. In your case, it sounds more like an activity/club. If you repeat your activities in another section, it may sound like you’re trying to pad your resume and in some cases, may be a turn off for admission officers.</p>