<p>You look like an idiot if you DON’T have it on your resume…</p>
<p>All the top students have it on their resume… I would be surprised if I was an admissions officer to not see an “Who’s who” or “NHSS” or “NHS” type of activity on an applicant’s resume if the school had such honorary society. This is assuming he is “smart” and that his school offered NHS. You won’t get extra brownie points if you think you were “above NHS” or thought it was mere resume fluff… It’s one of those activities that is expected to be on your resume if you were a top student in your HS.</p>
<p>Also, you get a NHS cowl during graduation. It’s equivalent to Phi Beta Kappa or Beta Beta Beta honorary society tassle in college graduations… You look like an idiot if you don’t have it in graduation PBK is kinda hard to get tho.</p>
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<p>Why would you ever do that… It makes no sense… You are going to graduate without an NHS cowl. Your parents are going to think your son is idiot among all your peers that has an NHS cowl during graduation… If I were a parent… I would love to see my kids get recognized for some achievement or something… It’s just natural. </p>
<p>I’m a former NHS president so I have strong feelings for this. Our NHS Chapter did a lot…</p>
<p>It definitely doesn’t hurt, though I know one guy who missed the deadline for application to NHS (might’ve been too lazy to do it) and got into Princeton.</p>
<p>Like some other people said, having ECs that you actually DO important things in and genuinely care about is more important than having ECs for the sake of having ECs- and admissions officers seem to be able to tell the difference between the two.</p>
<p>“You look like an idiot if you DON’T have it on your resume…”</p>
<p>No you don’t. Virtually everyone who applies to top colleges would qualify for NHS if their school had NHS and if they bothered to apply, and if (depending on the school), they kissed the right butts. Consequently, by itself, it’s very meaningless. </p>
<p>Being a NHS national officer, however, would be meaningful as could be organizing a major project with a local NHS.</p>
<p>NHS is one of those things you “should” have if you’re applying to a top school. Not having it could raise a question that you won’t get an opportunity to answer - why is this student not recognized? Two applicants, equally well qualified - one has it, one doesn’t. You can only take one. Which do you take? Not joining is simply not worth that gamble.</p>
PBK is kinda hard to get tho.</p>