<p>I'm a junior in high school now, and I just today learned that I did not make it into my school's NHS. My GPA is something around 4.4. How important is the NHS when colleges look at my application?</p>
<p>It’s an extra, extremely minor, little detail. My NHS is just a 4.0 (weighted) club because the administration decided to say that it was “unfair” to people who didn’t have leadership, volunteer, etc. so I decided not to join. I was invited, but it’s just a hassle to show up all the time when most people fake hours, for a club that’s not selective at all. Don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>I’m not even putting it on my application. I think the only thing it’s actually good for is its requirement of community service hours if your school so chooses to enforce that. Honors societies are often so broad and watered-down that their titles are meaningless; what really matters is how much time you put into them, and that can almost always be replaced with another activity of equal time investment.</p>
<p>I’m in NHS, and I can tell you its really not that big… The only way I could see it as important is if you become an officer, just because its a leadership position.</p>
<p>Importance of NHS… one of the most frequently asked questions on this forum.</p>
<p>Even as a former vice-president of NHS, it wasn’t really that big a deal for me. I listed it on my college applications, but put it further down the list since I had better things to put.</p>