<p>I know for colleges look highly upon awards and honors.</p>
<p>But to me, it seems that National Honor Society is starting to lose prestige as more and more kids are qualified to be a part of NHS.</p>
<p>Am I right or do colleges still look highly upon members of NHS?</p>
<p>Not sure that they ever looked at it as any kind of major accomplishment, but they definitely don’t now.</p>
<p>They’re unlikely to so much as notice its absence, and even if they do, they won’t care. If it’s there, it’s basically just another club unless you held a leadership position, which is just another generic (i.e., mundane) leadership position unless you accomplished something significant with that position.</p>
<p>In order to be competitive for the top schools, it’s pretty much a given that you have the grades to be part of NHS. Agree with the previous poster that either formally or informally, you should hold a leadership position and demonstrate impact.</p>
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<p>I was rejected from my school’s chapter of NHS for the typical undisclosed reason, then accepted at Rice, Emory, Northwestern, Colgate, UMich, and Michigan State.</p>
<p>As for leadership, I just want to clarify that leadership with NHS isn’t going to be any more meaningful than similar leadership elsewhere.</p>