<p>NHS is crazy here: only about 20 students in each grade out of 500+ students per grade... minimum GPA accepted in is 4.25 and you need recs from every single one of your teachers</p>
<p>:( Crazy!</p>
<p>We need community service and leadership experience, as well as a fairly high GPA.</p>
<p>Zuma,</p>
<p>Great info, my daughter is being inducted into the NHS next week.</p>
<p>my schools National Honor Society is crooked, people with 3.0 gpa get accepted over people with a 4.2 gpa.</p>
<p>I don't think it's that important to be in it ; my brother got into Northwestern without it.</p>
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All National Honor Society and Cum Laude Society members who are admitted to Washington College are awarded a $40,000 four-year Washington College Academic Tuition Scholarship ($10,000 annually for four years). Some NHS and CLS members qualify for additional awards that increase their total Academic Tuition Scholarship from $10,000 per year to $11,500 - $15,000 per year.
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<p>Many colleges offer small "feel good" scholarships to eveyone th at they admit. I doubt NHS has a substantial impact on admissions decisions at HYPSM.</p>
<p>Whether or not it's important depends on which schools you're applying to. Some schools will give you lots of scholarships for being in NHS, while others could care less. But either way, it won't hurt you to be in it. </p>
<p>It isn't hard to get inducted into NHS at my school, all you need is a 3.0 weighted GPA, and we have about 500 members. It's not that unusual an honor at my school, but we've done a lot of volunteer work, and it's a great way to encourage people to volunteer in their community.</p>
<p>you know i had that same exact question too a few days ago i stumbled on this site looking for that one question</p>
<p>im a B+ student and our gpa cut off is a 4.0 on a 6.0 scale i would have been in but i got in trouble with a teacher so i was knocked out of it along with a few of my friends </p>
<p><a href="http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/000290.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/000290.htm</a> look that that i read it and i felt a LOT better </p>
<p>hope it helped</p>
<p>It depends where you're applying. If you're trying for the Ivies, it will not make that much of a difference, although they may wonder if you omit it. Honestly, in some schools it's so easy to get into NHS that it doesn't mean you've done anything special to deserve it. Yes, you may have a high GPA, but that alone won't get you into a good school. </p>
<p>Just think of it this way- there are plenty of straight-A students and people with perfect test scores who get rejected from the Ivies. In a more competitive admissions pool, NHA membership will not make you stand out. At my school, we have around 35 seniors in NHS; only three or four of them are going to top-tier schools. There are probably eighty people every year who are eligible to be in NHS, but a lot of them don't even bother to apply.</p>
<p>It all depends where you want to go; the less prestigious the school, the fewer people with comparable records will be applying, so the more your NHS membership will make you stand out.</p>
<p>I wasn't in NHS and I got accepted into Amherst.</p>
<p>So I'll say it's neither a requirement, nor a significant plus.</p>