<p>So the NHS applications are now available at my school, and I'm wondering if it's worth it to join it. I really don't want to, because it seems like you just end up being a servant of the administration and I have absolutely no time to do any more service hours, but I want to know if I should just suck it up and do it anyway. Do colleges really like seeing it on your transcript? How much will my chances of getting into a good college be hurt if I don't do it?</p>
<p>IMO- no, not really. It’s glorified community service. Just do the community service. Colleges don’t care.</p>
<p>Well at my school it’s a joke. We don’t do anything, so it is extremely worth it. That being said, I don’t think it helps or hurts you. i doubt a college admissions committee would turn you down for NOT being in nhs, but it would still look good. I did hear that colleges know how nhs is, and how easy it is to get in. </p>
<p>My verdict, join. If nothing else, Nation Honor Society is a pretty cool name</p>
<p>I really don’t want to have to be at the beck and call of the administration. They’re really unreasonable and irritable, and they recently kicked the school gay-straight alliance out on a small pretext. I’m not really friends with many current members, so I really don’t know how much they do, but they’re not really all that visible most of the time. I guess they don’t do that much, but I know they do some stuff. Mostly tutoring and organizing some school activities, I think.</p>
<p>You’re sure I should join?</p>
<p>NHS is at my school is just a way to get you to do community service. I guess it’s okay since i really need the hours. But yeah other than that it’s really nothing. I went through the trouble of writing an essay, getting recommendations, and interviewed for nothing…=.=</p>
<p>second what nwgolfer321 said about NHS being totally worth it.</p>
<p>It’s worth it just because you don’t have to do anything and because you can get scholarship money out of it. It can’t hurt to be in it.</p>
<p>Are you really going to get any scholarships if you go into it and don’t do anything? It just doesn’t seem likely to me…</p>
<p>Nothing wrong with joining. At my school, members tutor (if students actually show up).</p>
<p>Blah NHS at my school is like 12 hours of community service a year and the teacher running it is by far the meanest teacher in the school…it’s not worth it for me because I am getting automatically accepted to the college I want to go to with my class rank but my parents still want me to stay in NHS ~_~</p>
<p>you really need to see how nhs is at your particular school. We did nothing to be in it at my school it was just the application and then a good name to put on college transcrips. Basically its a name for your community service. On the other hand my boy friends school’s nhs is ridiculous. They have to do all these hours in school for teachers and hours out of school at four paticular organizations not including church. so know what your getting youself into before you do it. plain and simple</p>
<p>I know that at some colleges it looks weird to them if top kids <em>aren’t</em> in NHS because they sometimes assume that it’s because the student might not be a great citizen or something. (At least that’s what my mom said and she’s a college admissions officer - has been for 20 years).
So with that in mind, I’d say suck it up and be in NHS. It won’t hurt you, by any means.</p>