<p>^ not everyone is top 5%</p>
<p>Sorry, I was referring to post #35 that said this could make a difference for “that small select group of students applying to top colleges,” most of whom I would assume are in the top 5% since top schools rarely admit anyone with scores below that level (about 2100 SAT would be 95%). I doubt NHS makes a difference for these students.</p>
<p>Do I think it will be likely that it will make a difference? No. Could it make a difference? Yes. It could. I don’t think it made a difference, not one whit for my kids, but at a school that considers it a big deal and if the kid is applying to a college that does looks at all the triple axles and quadruple lutzes, yes, it could. Where I once lived, the school was huge with 700 kids in the graduating class. It was considered a big deal thing to be inducted in the school’s NHS with less than 5% of the kids so inducted. THose counselors filling out college recs, didn’t know the kids from each other, and many of them rather than writing a narrative, for those few kids applying to schools that asked for recs rather than just going on the stats as the state u did, would just check off the squares, and they knew who was NHS and yes, those kids got a bit of a bump up. Seeing that Yale has rejected kids who got less than perfect on those evaluative forms, yes, it could make a difference.</p>
<p>But, the chances are very small, miniscule that they would.</p>
<p>Artsue40, I wish your son all the best. I have no relatives on the autism spectrum (as of yet), but I feel a great deal of empathy for those in that situation. I think that society is evolving to be increasingly understanding of differences, and that acceptance will improve–at least, I hope that is the case!</p>