<p>Does being in the National Honors Society really help you get into college?</p>
<p>Depends what level college</p>
<p>hmhmh im also curious. Can it help you get into schools like rice and cornell?</p>
<p>LOL. Is this a joke? To be frank, NHS is completely useless.</p>
<p>depends on your NHS. some do nothing and admit anyone with a GPA higher than 3.0. some are more selective and do a lot more work in their high schools. explain what your NHS does in your app and maybe it will help.</p>
<p>My school’s NHS is a joke. 3.7+ and 20 comm service hours first semester junior year gets you in, and you can still get in 1st semester senior year if you have the GPA and were denied/didn’t bother junior year. All we really do is host a service project or two, usher for school events, and act like we are a lot better than we really are.</p>
<p>Basically, it depends on how NHS at your school is. You also have to consider that pretty much every applicant at a top 25 university will be in NHS, so you should really find something else that will make you stand out. So it really won’t help at all with getting into college unless you have a leadership role within it.</p>
<p>nope. every school has diff qualifications to get in, at one school you might need a 3.2 and at another a 3.8. some u have to have many ec’s also. some clubs, like mine, do absolutely nothing. u just get in, and have it in ur resume like an award or recognition. Like the person above me said, u have to explain what ur club does for it to be a significant part of your app. If its just listed, it wont help at all</p>
<p>A 3.7 is not a joke. Don’t be so stuck up.</p>
<p>depends if the 3.7 is weighted or not.</p>
<p>No, but your GPA is already there. The question is does NHS add anything to it.</p>
<p>Well, if you have all the qualifications for achieving admission into NHS and don’t bother with it, I don’t think it’d hurt you much.</p>
<p>Which level college are you worrying about? I mean I know a kid who was just too lazy to do NHS that got into Princeton… and is now in a 6 year med program instead, so… lol :p</p>
<p>At my school, the NHS is ridiculously active. About 10 events a year, and raises over 10,000 dollars for charity some years. Plus 5,000 or so for the group for things such as sashes for graduation. This is no joke at my school. I believe the requirement is a 4.2 weighted or a 3.7 unweighted. And you need to have leadership experience. Two in school, two out of school. This amounts to 200 of the 2400 kids at my school. Ridiculous how high most of the students achieve.</p>
<p>you say “it depends on how active your nhs is”… i was just wondering how colleges would even know if it was active?.. should i not bother doing it then because its alot of work at my schoool.</p>
<p>Membership may help you get merit aid at some second tier and below colleges.</p>
<p>However, membership or even being a school officer isn’t going to boost you into a top college. Being a national officer, however, may make you stand out in their pools.</p>
<p>Virtually all applicants to top colleges have the gpa to get into NHS. Some schools don’t even have NHS, and admissions officers know that if a student isn’t in NHS it may be because the school doesn’t have a chapter or because the internal politics are ridiculously unfair.</p>
<p>For top colleges, what you achieve in an EC is much more important than is membership in an EC.</p>
<p>Not a top 25 college, but it will help you get into most.</p>
<p>thank you alll… i applied… ill find out later on this month if i got in</p>
<p>It is not worth it. I boycotted it because I don’t agree with jumping through hoops for the sole purpose of jumping through hoops. </p>
<p>And I didn’t do it so I could write about how I didn’t do it on my application. I just didn’t do it. And I am very happy with my results.</p>
<p>It won’t help that much cause everyone applying will be in it.</p>
<p>seems like more people don’t like it than like it</p>
<p>it cant hurt… and i wouldn’t say EVERYONE applying to top schools has it.</p>