When:
National Honor Roll
Who’s Who Among High School Students
National Society of High School Scholars
…show up on your resume, do they mean anything to colleges?
<p>hahahaha <em>wipes tear</em>. no, I'm afraid not. At least you know its a scam, some people come on here thinking it's the real deal!...</p>
<p>I'm not saying that having them on your application will adversely affect you, but the adcoms might roll their eyes as they skip over top of them. Don't be fooled just because some don't ask for your money. National Honor Roll is run by a marketing firm and they make their profits by selling mailing lists of "honorees" to different bulk mailers.</p>
<p>I can't help but say that how can a scam recognition ever be anything worthy to consider. Scam recognition just doesn't go with importance.</p>
<p>I know that a lot of Ron Brown Scholars get Who's who. But, I think that Who's who really a scam.</p>
<p>None mean a thing except that you wasted your money and time.</p>
<p>They are all of the get-your-name-in-a-book-and-buy-the-book-but-nobody-ever-reads-the-book type of scam.</p>
<p>yeh dude...no way do colleges take those seriously</p>
<p>Hmm...if you have an empty line for Academic Honors on your application, is it better to just leave it blank or to put Who's Who (or a similar scam recognition)?</p>
<p>Probably not (add the scam "honors"), I would guess. It looks worse to try and fill in empty space with a scam they won't care about, than to leave it blank and tell them, "these are the honors I've got." It'll make it seem like you are proud of what you have, rather than make you seem like you're just trying to impress them by adding every little thing you can think of.</p>
<p>As an alumni interviewer I've seen a lot of resumes and many students will write these in as well as "invited to National Leadership Forum but was unable to attend." I think it just shows that they are not college application savy and shows they did it themselves, no private counselors or involved GC. These kids have still fared quite well in the app process as many were quite talented. It neither hurt nor helped them.</p>
<p>I don't think that they would reject/deny someone for not being savvy about the admissions process, but there is still absolutely no good reason to put the stuff on your app. If you leave it blank, it's blank. If it is blank except for that, you are desperate for anything.</p>