So I guess there was something lacking in my application, considering I have a 3.8, solid ECs and service hours. I don’t think my essay was bad or anything. A bit bummed out about it, but it is what it is.
So how much will this affect my chances of getting into schools like University of Illinois Champaign Georgia Tech, University of Michigan, etc. for aeronautical engineering? Does it really matter that much? Thanks.
It never hurts to have NHS on your résumé, but it’s not a fatal deficiency.
Not at all. It in fact may be a blessing in disguise. You may have fallen back on this ho hum accolade. Now you will need to pick your brain and focus on what are the extraordinary ways you show leadership and contribute to your school and home communities.
It’s not a bad thing. NHS is overdone and its not impressive. I’m sure you have better ECs and leadership activities to use your “5 Honor spots” on the Common App and your 10 EC spots you are allotted.
I wouldn’t worry about it. NHS is not a big deal for college admissions. Focus on what is in your control and make the rest of your application as strong as it can be.
It will not affect you negatively at all. You’re better off, in fact, spending time in other areas than devoting effort to an extracurricular that probably 75-90 percent of students applying to those schools have.
Not an issue. Every high school has its own criteria for NHS admission and colleges know this. This is why they don’t care about NHS. Huge numbers of kids are in NHS and when everyone is in a club, it’s no longer special, right? Don’t worry.
Well, not everyone. NHS at our HS is less than 10% (about 40 out of 425 students) of the class, and not everyone who applies gets accepted (as evidenced by the OP). It’s a “nice to have”, but, as I said earlier, not essential.
@Muad_dib , hence my comment that every school has its own criteria. At my kid’s HS about a third of students are in it, of a class of 300. Vast numbers of college applicants are in NHS. It’s great that it’s a hard-won achievement at your school and the kids can be proud, but as you can see from this sample of two, there is wide variation nation-wide.
I agree, it is not an issue. Colleges don’t look at NHS as much as the ECs/GPA you had that would get you into NHS…it is the service and leadership and GPA…NHS is just a nice little title to put on it.
If you have a 3.8 GPA, 100 hours of service and 20 leadership hours + NHS or not +NHS it would make no difference to colleges.
Although I agree that not having NHS is not a problem, I’d want to know why you were not accepted as this could give you an idea of areas where you could improve. Perhaps you need to work on essay writing, missed a deadline, or didn’t understand the requirements. Sometimes you can learn more from a loss than a win.