<p>Of my own volition. I didn't do anything wrong, I'm just frustrated with it.</p>
<p>I already submitted the Common App, so of course I can't go back and delete those parts now...</p>
<p>My advisers say that they want a list of colleges I applied to so they can call admissions and tell them to cross it out on my application. Would it be appropriate to forward these colleges a copy of my official letter of resignation explaining my reasons for leaving?</p>
<p>Maybe not your official letter, but something to show them that you left by your choice. Maybe a note from your guidance counselor saying that you resigned?</p>
<p>I think (assume) my advisers would say that I resigned, but as I was perusing the Internet, I've found that apparently some schools try to "force" people to resign rather than go through the dismissal process. That's the perception I'm trying to avoid...</p>
<p>I'll talk to my guidance counselor and see if she'll do that for me.</p>
<p>Have to ask: Why did you resign?</p>
<p>Also, I'm surprised your advisers would care enough to want to correct your apps. Bad blood there?</p>
<p>My school doesn't dismiss anyone- they practically make you resign if there was some problem.
Mind you, this goes for everything from NHS to student council to expulsions (apparently, one girl was caught with coke in her locker and trying to sell it to another student. She wasn't expelled- she had the option of withdrawing from the school without an expulsion going on her record).</p>
<p>(/random side note)</p>
<p>Do u go to a public or private HS?</p>
<p>Youdon'tsay: I PM'ed you.</p>
<p>pattib: Public.</p>
<p>lol yeah, why did u resign? and i doubt that colleges realy care about National Honor Society, unless you're an officer or something. basically everyone is in it if they didn't plagiarize. the teachers are being a bit overreactive about this no?</p>
<p>I second (third?) the "Why?" comment. The only reason you should resign is if you have been caught(or have done) something unethical. Otherwise, if it's just faculty who hate you trying to push you out, stay your ground! You can write an explanatory letter to colleges you're applying to detailing what happened to you.</p>
<p>yeah i think if it's possible, stay, to not cause a LOT of troube. impressions are always important, no matter how much college admins say that they "understand"--if you quit or resign from the national honor society, it might seem really suspicious</p>
<p>For the record, I'm resigning out of personal principle and frustration. I don't want to be a part of it any more; the very corruption of it -- and indeed it is corruption -- is simply nauseating.</p>
<p>PMs going out now.</p>
<p>I'm in the NHS and it can be frustrating at times, but granted I have a semester left. Mind telling me the reason why?</p>
<p>Er--I'd like to ask why as well.</p>
<p>If the colleges are notified by your advisers, unless they make it CLEAR that you are doing it of your OWN ACCORD (and if they care enough to tell colleges that you're doing it, they probably don't like you enough for that to be the case... especially if you told them their organization was corrupt =P), they'll assume you did something bad. I would send a very explicit letter, and ask to see whatever the teachers send the colleges about it as well.</p>
<p>id like to join the why party</p>
<p>Me too! I just want to know how it's soo corrupted that you have to "resign"!</p>
<p>I would like to agree with the author of this post. I too was annoyed at the system at my school some of you might know as CSF. (California Scholarship Foundation).</p>
<p>Basically students pay $ to this group so they can have this prestigious title and graduate in front of the class. Though this title is really not very prestigious. I decided the person who came up with this 'honor system' was probably doing pretty good with money and I stopped after one year.</p>
<p>I am also curious as to why you feel you must leave :)</p>
<p>I am not from Ca so never heard of it. Why don't CA students protest about it? Like, something must be done right? getting out of a club isn't the best reply u can give to corruptions!</p>
<p>NHS can be pretty corrupt. For example, there are a lot of opportunities at our school that go sort of like this: "Pay X amount of dollars to this charity, and you get X amount of service credits." </p>
<p>I don't have the money to buy service hours, but even if I did- I wouldn't. It's really wrong and then they ask you how you have the audacity not to contribute. Pfffft. </p>
<p>NHS is silly.</p>
<p>Okay. I was originally confining this to PMs, but...here you go, the entire story, not very abridged. It's a foolish thing to post on a public message board, but at this point...I'm ready for any risk. If you don't feel like reading it, here's the short version: I can't put up with extended amounts of bull****.</p>
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<p>In my school, people are only selected based on their GPA no matter what anybody says; they make you answer a few questions before they let you in, though -- for what reason I don't know, because they apparently don't . I decided to have some fun with them and see what would happen if I submitted this in response to "explain why you would like to become a member of NHS":</p>
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There are, quite simply, two major reasons for why I would like to become a member of National Honor Society: first, because I need anything and everything I can get when it comes to college applications, and second, because I don't think my mother would find a complete rejection of this application acceptable and I should take every opportunity I can get to beef up my college credentials. Of course, there is the added benefit of the permanent hall pass, which, although trivial, would rid me of some small fraction of the hassle I must contend with throughout the school day. I have a feeling that these are exactly the wrong answers to your question, but I believe that if a private poll were done among the applicants to your venerable society, all of these reasons would rank far above any student's desire to be represented in one of our school's finest organizations and the honor it entails and their insatiable lust for do-gooding and such. To be honest, I am almost unsure of whether I truly desire to be a part of this or not, since this application procedure in itself necessitates such an amount of what my peers and I crudely refer to as "BS-ing" (and I apologize for this crudeness, but the crime in itself is one quite vulgar) that it would seem that no contrast can be made between persons of integrity and the hypocrites who are content with giving the obvious answers. Were there a viable way to weed these hypocrites out, I would receive this offer much more readily, since no doubt of the forthrightness of your organization would ever cross my mind. However, it is certainly not my place to criticize a selection process which has obviously been working just fine for several decades, and therefore I will conclude this by saying that from the ideal viewpoint (i.e., the one where I forget all of my misgivings about the true meaning of NHS and take it for what it claims to be on the surface [which is, for all I know, the only perception I was supposed to have of it in the first place]), I actually do consider induction into the society to be a great honor and to earn its recognition would be prestigious indeed and it would be quite wonderful to join in order to further its mission as countless students have done in the past, and I can only hope that you don't take this all to be BS because although it wasn't brief like you asked I think it would be both ironic and unjust to disbelieve me now when I have already wasted so much cynical verbosity on my actual thoughts and beliefs rather than take the easy route out and say only what you want to hear.
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<p>And then they let me in, and I was like wth. I think they would have been embarrassed if they didn't let the top five in or something. If you couldn't tell, I wasn't exactly trying to get in to begin with...but when I did, I decided to take it to heart and not do NHS because I'm a tool, but because I thought that maybe, just maybe, we might actually get something done.</p>
<p>To make a long story short, I ended up being the one with the jackass application who actually wanted to do things, and everybody else ended up being the "omg <3 nhs we are awesomely not hypocrites" people who don't want to do anything. I'm frustrated, and although I'd love to be the leader who pulls it all together, I simply do not have the power to knock the heads of eighteen other teenagers together into doing something productive.</p>
<p>So I'm taking the most logical route out: I'm quitting so I don't have to go to those godawful 7:30am meetings and waste my time with $17 frozen pizza fundraisers.</p>
<p>It's a matter of principle; I am quite convinced that the vast majority of NHS-ers are in it for the perks I mentioned in my original essay, and I refuse to partake in that any longer. I never meant to partake in that kind of tool-dom to begin with. It's just not who I am. I just wish I had realized that before I thought it could be changed.</p>