<p>I'm considering joining, but really if it doesn't help then why bother?</p>
<p>Depends on the cutoff to get in. The old one used to be 3.8, which was a pretty good credential. But I think that each school can establish a much lower qualifying GPA for its charter.</p>
<p>Although being part of National Honor Society seems like something everyone is a part of, it may still help with college admissions. What I mean is, if you are smart enough to get invited to NHS, it may seem odd that you are not part of NHS to an admissions person. I don’t think he/she would think that you applied to NHS and were denied; it would just look like you didn’t seek it out. And you should check with your chapter to see how many community service hours you need to get to officially be an NHS member. You probably don’t need as many as you think, and probably have an entire school year to get all of those community service hours completed.</p>
<p>Simply belonging? No.</p>
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<p>Yeah, plus being forced to do community service will give you something else to put on your resume as well, which will be more important than just being in the NHS (at least imo).</p>
<p>If you use it as a means to distinguish yourself-- e.g. was a officer and coordinated a large community service effort, then sure. If it’s just another meaningless thing to put on a list, no.</p>
<p>Yeah that’s what I was thinking, I’d have to be an active member and stuff. It doesn’t distinguishes me at all though? I mean if it was a matter of GPA, couldn’t they just look at my GPA?</p>
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<p>There might be something to this if community service per se were a criterion for college admission, but it isn’t. A relatively small number of colleges and universities–admittedly, they’re the selective ones that get all the attention on College Confidential–use extracurricular accomplishment as a way to decide which academically qualified applicants they’ll accept and which ones they’ll take a pass on. That extracurricular accomplishment *could *be in community service, but it could also be in sports, music, debate, dance… Just having done a bit of public service, particularly if it looks like “compulsory volunteerism,” has very little value, if any.</p>
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<p>Exactly.</p>
<p>I felt like its one of those things thats not a big deal if you do have it, but you get an eyebrow raised if you don’t. Not always, one of my friends got into UNC-CH without it, but shes brilliant. I really only did it for the chords at graduation…</p>
<p>My daughter never joined because she was not interested. She had other interests. She didn’t want to do any of the community services the members were suggested/supposed to do and she didn’t like tutoring other kids. She still got in the top 20 LAC.</p>
<p>If you don’t have any specific interest or hobby, don’t know what to do for community service, then I think it’s a good idea to join but I don’t think it’s a necessary thing.</p>
<p>Well, it doesn’t hurt your college chances to join. And as with many things, it may provide you with some opportunities for service that you wouldn’t have otherwise. My D found the peer tutoring was very rewarding. If your chapter doesn’t have service projects you could lead one. Or join a project that is interesting to you. The NHS offers a group of together students to work with, and you can also learn from them.</p>
<p>This question (and ones like it about the NHS) get asked about once a month here on CC.</p>
<p>Opinions always vary widely. YMMV.</p>
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<p>Simply belonging to anything doesn’t help with upper tier colleges, even Mensa.</p>
<p>Gotta do something, lead something. - which is nice, you can create and do something you really like. You don’t have to join other people’s clubs, etc.</p>
<p>Yeah I’ve been told its completely useless unless you do something, but then again I’m not sure. It’s not really that hard to get in, its just 3.8 gpa+</p>
<p>I guess I’ll spend my time progamming then.</p>