<p>SO recently people in my school got National Honor Society Invitations..i did not because my gpa was two points below the require threshold. Thre requirement is a 94 W while i only have a 92 W. I plan on bringing it up so i can join NHS during Senior Year but my question is... does a person with NHS have an big advantage over people that dont? Any opinions or facts or w.e?</p>
<p>NHS is nothing. Unless you hold leadership positions, and even then, not much.</p>
<p>I don’t know how impressive it is when it comes to college application, but at D2’s current high school only a handful of students were asked to join junior year. They do a lot of charity work and school activities. At D2’s school it is a great honor, they have a ceremony to welcome new members. D2 was very honored to have been chosen.</p>
<p>^It’s still almost entirely useless on college applications.</p>
<p>Why do you think it’s useless though? o.o just wondering because iv seen other posts where people say its useless and other people say it’s not useless</p>
<p>NHS is equivalent to any other club. </p>
<p>That’s how much weight it has in applications.</p>
<p>A lot of high school students are part of NHS. It’s very commonplace – not as unique as you think it is. Sure, it may be special in terms of your particular school but, on the larger scale, it isn’t. You’re not competing with just people in your school for colleges, but those all across the nation.</p>
<p>Also, think about it more. What purpose does NHS have?
It essentially is just recognizing you for having a certain GPA and indirectly pushing you to volunteer.
You can volunteer on your own and you don’t really need academic recognition (unless you’re incredibly attention-seeking and insecure).</p>
<p>^^^And how do you know, because…</p>
<p>At some schools it is more than just GPA.</p>
<p>On the other hand, not everything you do in high school, or honors given to you, need to be related to college application.</p>
<p>Actually i will admit that in our school ( even though its like one of the top highschools ) the people in NHS don’t deserve to be in it simply because they want it on apps. Not sure if thats just my school but yea</p>
<p>Around 30% of my class is in NHS… so I doubt it’s that big of a deal. I was elected the president though, could that help me?</p>
<p>President? Oh nice 
i think that’s pretty good. A leadership stand in any club is pretty good.</p>
<p>At my school only a few kids are chosen and it’s a big deal…but I understand at other schools they don’t do much with it. We run a few LARGE events that truly help the community here so I think that’s important because you really can’t participate in those unless you’re in NHS.</p>
<p>NHS is definitely better than the “world culture club” or similarly vague/contrived ECs. Its not going to set you apart in the crowd applying to Ivys but might help at less selective schools. Leadership is always better than simple participation, so leadership in NHS is a plus.</p>
<p>I am 3rd in my class of about 300 students and have a GPA well over 4.0, but I wasn’t accepted into NHS because I didn’t have “enough” volunteer hours. This confused me because i thought the point of NHS was to do charity work and volunteering. I never thought too highly of NHS because some students were accepted with a 3.6 or 3.7 GPA and a lot of volunteer hours under their belt. I’m glad to hear that it doesn’t matter too much when it comes to a college application because I was kinda worried too</p>
<p>Right now Im in Enviornmental Club and Key Club…thinking of joining Spanish Language Club…they all voulenteer So I’m pretty happy with those too…sure they arent NHS ,but…it still feels nice helping around</p>
<p>Well for my school, youd be automatically accepted into the club if you have a (weighted) 4.0 and/or (unweighted) 3.75. Then the club lets you do community service like peer tutoring and other fundraisers. Would that make a serious advantage in admissions?</p>
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<p>What type of logic is that? I don’t even.</p>
<p>Its stupid though how they only restrict the voulunterring to NHS members. I know there are other means of volunterring but…</p>
<p>I am President of NHS at my school. So yeah, it’s a pretty big deal!.. That was sarcasm, but it’s still pretty awesome to be President of any club or society! Even if the student’s vote you in. Ha!</p>