<p>Everybody keeps telling me how important it is to be class president, national honor society president, or SGA president or you'll never be accepted to a good school. Is it true that these leadership roles really boost your chances?</p>
<p>Leadership roles will help but then what they said are completely false. Don’t do things to bandwagon - do things you actually want to do.</p>
<p>I didn’t even get into nhs and I got into Cornell. I am pres of some clubs but not a lot</p>
<p>Im not president of any club and I got accepted.</p>
<p>I am President of Fashion Club, Press Secretary and Publicity Leader of NHS, Chair of the Board of Directors for a girls empowerment expo, and on an advisory council of a Scholar Foundation and I got in…</p>
<p>I didn’t get into NHS at all at my school and I’m the only one attending an Ivy. Clubs won’t make or break you its just a matter of standing out with the time you spend away from school. Even though I didn’t have NHS I was a 2 year captain of the Vars swim team which probably helped.</p>
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how did you not get into NHS…at my school you only need a 3.3 gpa to get in.</p>
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This is why colleges don’t take NHS very seriously. There are no national standards. At DC’s school you need to be in the top 10 percent to even be considered. Then a subset of those with squeaky clean disciplinary records and a history of CS are invited based on faculty input.</p>
<p>Showing leadership & excellence through your EC’s can offset slightly below average test & academic stats (as long as those stats are still within the accepted range).</p>
<p>@concrete, at my school they had a board of 5 teachers make the decision and the one teacher who wasn’t fond of me in my school ended up on the board convincing the others to no vote me, they then provided me with the excuse “you had no community service” even though I dumped a lot of hours into political campaigning, tutoring children and community band</p>