<p>I was not admitted because I got a C+ freshman year and a few B's. Since then, I've always taken all honors and AP classes but still, its very hard for me to get all A's in these class so my GPA is still quite low (that along with the fact that I go to a competetive hs). I know NHS does not really help in the admission process but I just feel like everyone will laugh at me (or the parents of nhs) will laugh at me on the day of graduation when I'm lacking that extra tassel. Sometimes I feel rediculous for caring but I live in a small town, where this matters. What should I do? (just live with it and attempt at being good at other things so the town knows i'm not a failure.....or beg my counselor to let me in?)</p>
<p>Well I don’t know how your school does it, but can you try again during senior year? And really, don’t worry about it too much, it’s a joke. I rank somewhere in the top 10 kids, not percent (well, that too I suppose), out of ~700 in my class with a 4.83 gpa w, 4.0uw, all honors and AP and good leadership/service, blah blah blah and did not get in because this one teacher hated me and was on the committee to select people and said I “shared answers” so I was rejected because of questionable character. Now, I’ve never cheated on a test, idk what the witch meant by shared answers whether I copied or let others copy off of me, but you can imagine how furious I was as well as all of my other teachers who know me because they know I’m an excellent, good, honorable student while kids who BRAG about cheating got in. You can imagine how embarrassing this was for me since everyone expected me to get in and freak out when they find out I’m not in it yet I’m one of the best students in our huge class. I’m thinking about not even applying next year because of what happened but it might look odd when the top 10 are standing up on stage together at graduation and I’m the only one without a tassel and I know my mom would be mad so that’s the only reason I’d even consider reapplying. People won’t think you’re a failure, maybe they’ll think you just didn’t apply or have enough time to join. I’d talk to the school about it if it really bothers you, or otherwise just get involved in a lot of things so you can get tassels from other clubs and hopefully you’ll have enough that they don’t even notice the missing NHS one.</p>
<p>I’m not bothering with NHS. You have to pay to get in, you don’t do anything, and the GPA requirement is so low that I can’t even remember if it was a 2.5 or 3.0. Either way, it was ridiculous, and I could care less about a tassel that no one will even remember the day after graduation. </p>
<p>Don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>i live in a small town and my friend didn’t get it, but we still love him anyway (:</p>
<p>Hah, two years ago i was right where you are. I got an 89 overall on my sophomore year and my NHS requires every GPA for every year not to fall below a 90 - so i was ****ed off esp since I had already made volunteer commitments to fulfill NHS requirements. On top of that my overall GPA was 0.7345 points from being an A (92) - NHS requirement for joining.</p>
<p>I guess it really doesn’t matter in the end. When we graduated they got a tiny pin and a sash. I felt a little bad, but it only really means anything right then. I know plenty of people who didn’t want to join anyways.</p>
<p>Does NHS mean anything if you have a position (president, vice president, etc?)</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>yeah it does… leadership</p>
<p>cool! its not that notable though probably ahah. thanks though! sorry for hijacking ur thread OP!</p>
<p>It’s notable if you make officer.</p>
<p>I’m Secretary for our NHS and it seems like ours is harder to get in… we have a requirement of 30 hours per year after admittance, a W 3.8 GPA minimum, and we have to submit applications that basically look like college apps. It’s easier for us to get in once we’re juniors (one app is in soph, one in jun) but the sophomore applicant pool is very, very tough. I was among ~10? other sophomores who made it into NHS in '08 but I had, what I would say, a very strong app. as a sophomore. I applied with 4 leadership positions, one internship, no reference of academics in school (they don’t look at GPA after the 3.8 min), a few small awards from various places, and minor athletic participation (Swim JV, as I wasn’t a “winner” in badminton leagues yet"). </p>
<p>It’s serious at our school, but some other schools make it seem way too easy to get in…</p>
<p>^Exactly, and the arbitrary nature of this organization is exactly what keeps me from joining. Like you said, at some places it’s a serious club; but at our school, it’s a complete popularity contest for leadership positions, you only need a 3.5 to get in, and more over, some don’t even make that and get in. How can adcoms just accept whatever they read as being impressive, despite the shocking level of laziness and dishonesty that tends to run rampant (not saying for all schools, just for a good number)</p>
<p>Such a scattershot way of selection without a national standard of admittance does not seem like a worthwhile endeavor, whether or not it helps much for college.</p>
<p>Then again, the same could be said of GPA…but I’m mainly going for UCs instate, so that’s moot for me luckily…</p>
<p>Really…NHS doesn’t mean much at all.</p>