<p>hey, can anyone tell me how important Who's Who Among American High School Students is?</p>
<p>100% not important. its a scam. probably worse to list it than to not list it</p>
<p>It is a scam that makes money from selling mailing lists. It probably doesn't hurt for it to be on your app because adcoms will skip over it, but it certainly doesn't help. The other two are National Honor Roll and National Society of High School Scholars.</p>
<p>national honor roll as well?</p>
<p>I'm not in it and i'm still alive</p>
<p>Haha...My freshman brother got a letter for that this week and he hasn't even taken the PSAT yet.</p>
<p>heheheheheheheheheheh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>If you fell for any of these, don't tell anybody.</p>
<p>I joined the National Honor Roll just because I wanted the T-shirt. I love funky tees!</p>
<p>Been there. Done that. Got the t-shirt. :)</p>
<p>I've never really investigated Who's Who, but NSHSS does have a <em>few</em> benefits. I published an article in one of their monthly updates which helped beef up my resume (which I used for scholarships, not college apps, and ended up winning a full-ride--although that is beyond the scope of the NSHSS article). Also, there are scholarship opportunities within the 'club' -- but they're very limited.</p>
<p>I must add this nail in the Who's Who coffin. I'm a 50-year-old mom of a 17-year-old senior. About two years ago, a good two years after she received her own Who's Who invitation (after she'd been in public high school all of three months at age 13), I received my own. I completed and returned it, noting my graduation date of 1973. Never heard what happened after that. She returned hers saying she'd been raised by wolves. Don't know what happened after that either. Perhaps if you don't send a check they toss it.</p>
<p>This Who's Who is a scam to sell you the book. If you fall for it and then list it on an application the college will immediately reject you since you would then be deemed a naive fool.</p>
<p>ALMOST ANY award that requires you to pay a fee to get it is bogus. If anything, I feel sorry for kids that fell for the scam when I see these "awards" on their resumes.</p>
<p>I shouldn't have been so harsh in my original post. It's a scam yes, but HS kids can be naive on this stuff since it may be one of the 1st of endless scams they'll come across in life. This is where they need parents (or these forums) to help them recognize these scams. Unfortunatly the world is full of scammers looking to get your money.</p>
<p>You don't have to pay a fee to actually get this "award" (but you'll get plenty of spam urging you to preserve your precious memory). You do show that you're naive to adcoms if you actually think and list this junk mail as an award. amatricia, I am very suprised that both you and your daughter did not get a response back. My friends and I filled out a lot of fake applications, for our pet dogs and dead presidents and we got back congratulatory responses from these people. To this day, I still get spam for my dog from them asking my dog to sign up for the Who's Who credit card (I think their spam asking me for my dog's grandparent's mailing information so they can try and scam the poor old folks finally stopped- but I'm not 100% certain since I'm not at home checking my mail anymore).</p>
<p>"This Who's Who is a scam to sell you the book. If you fall for it and then list it on an application the college will immediately reject you since you would then be deemed a naive fool."</p>
<p>Would mentioning it, make or break your application?</p>
<p>Ivy, that person was just being sarcastic. It won't make or break your application. It certainly will not help you in any way, shape, or form, but it won't "break" your application. The adcoms will probably just laugh when they come across it and just ignore it. There is the slight chance that you may get a reader who happens to be annoyed for some other reason, and when they come across your application, scoff at it because it is fluff and jargon used to just fill up spaces on the application, but that won't be the reason why they would reject someone.</p>
<p>Ivy: Don't worry if it's on your app. I am sure that alot of people have it on their apps and the adcoms just skip over it without even thinking about it.</p>
<p>Yes, we skip right over it.</p>
<p><em>CLOSED</em> :)</p>