<p>Hi am a freshmen and I was wondering what is Honor society</p>
<p>it's a club you join when you're a junior if you have a 4.0. you get to wear a little extra something when you graduate. plus, it looks good on college applications.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot</p>
<p>huh? the honor society? I didn't know its a club. </p>
<p>I was automatically entered in it when I started high school as a freshmen, thats how I got honors classes...</p>
<p>There's no real purpose to it except "community service", but how much community service can you get done when the club meets like once every two months? It's just to make smart kids feel even more elitist by letting them have their own organization where only smart kids like them can join.</p>
<p>being in NHS is one of those credentials on EVERY senior's application (at least for the top schools and the like) so i can't imagine it's given much weight, it's mostly just another activity to put down to show that you're not missing it, but really it's a matter of how strict your hs's acceptance is (as far as gpa, community service hrs, leaderships, recs), so if they're really lenient about this, even real idiots can make it, so wraider, not every member should be so proud</p>
<p>Yeah, for my school, it's only for seniors. We have to have a 92 GPA, write an essay about leadership, and get good recommendations from our teachers. About 30 guys get in (out of a class of 120). The teacher leader said it himself, it's just something to put on our college apps. All we have to do is help tutor the underclassmen residents and give tours at our school's open house.</p>
<p>Well it's different for many schools. But the basic concept of an honor society is just get in but don't rely on it too much because everyone has it on their apps.</p>
<p>Haha, the NHS is useless at my school. They run a blood drive once a year and that's it.</p>
<p>At our school, if you have a 3.4, we have to fill out an application with all our community service, extracurriculars, etc. and all your teachers evaluate you and you don't actually become inducted into NHS until the end of junior year. Then we need 40 volunteer hours.</p>
<p>We have about 500 people in the class and about 120 are in NHS. It's not really useless because we do meet fairly often... but it's definitely not as exclusive as some people make it out to be.</p>
<p>It's mostly the same here, crazy14.</p>
<p>Even though so many people get in, at our school, it seems like nothing but a big elitist induction ceremony and more talk about how all the kids in it are "leaders of the community, academic scholars, perfect people"... A lot of BS basically. What wraider says applies perfectly at my school.</p>
<p>The only reason I bothered to join was obviously because it's basically a standard thing on most transcripts of students applying to elite colleges.</p>