National Honor Society and Disciplinary Records

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I'm a Sophomore and I just recently applied for National Honor Society. The selection council is convening in the next week to make decisions on students. Anyways, in my school there are Junior and Senior privileges, which essentially allow them to leave school during the day if they have a study hall or lunch. Consequently, many Sophomores who have their licenses also do this, which is a violation of the school conduct code. </p>

<p>Today, I went out to lunch with a friend during study hall, and was caught (perhaps unfortunately, perhaps I deserved it). I'm a pretty good kid and I don't think I've ever gotten in trouble with authority figures in high school, thus I have some questions.</p>

<p>1) Does the detention I received get recorded in my files?
2) Can/Does the National Honor Society access these files?
3) How much would such a disciplinary infraction hurt my acceptance hopes?</p>

<p>Cheers, and thanks for helping me out.</p>

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<p>Detention, huh? Might as well just throw in the towel…all hopes are lost.</p>

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<p>first, NHS is a joke in most schools, and does nothing for you at college application time. It only takes up time during HS when you could be doing something much more interesting and valuable. </p>

<p>Second, NHS committee may or may not have access to that info. Since one of the values is “character” and / or “citizenship”, then yes, it can affect you. Unless you are a star athlete or other chosen golden student. In that case, the committee is likely to turn a blind eye to anything short of murder to admit you to NHS. </p>

<p>Sorry, but I am a bitter and jaded mom about NHS for a number of appropriate reasons. Just don’t hang your future on NHS or expect any benefits from it. It is not worth your time and angst.</p>

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<p>I’d expect that it varies from school to school, but detention? That’s really tiny. Don’t do it again. You waste an hour or two. Thassit.</p>

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<p>Nothing will happen to you besides 2 hours of being bored.</p>

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<p>My friend (Attends Princeton) got into Stanford, Yale, MIT, and Cornell.</p>

<p>He had an integrity violation (copying homework) freshman year.
He also was caught doing his girlfriend on a school trip.</p>

<p>tl;dr don’t worry about it OP</p>

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<p>The only reason I’m worried about the detention is the fact that my parents were e-mailed a paper entitled “Discipline Form”. That makes me think that this form is put in my file, as well as e-mailed to both parents. Ironically, the only reason they’re PO’ed is that they take NHS wicked seriously.</p>

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<p>I am a parent that used to take NHS seriously too…until I found CC. Search NHS or National Honor Society on here. Unless you are applying to one of the very few colleges that have NHS scholarship, it is really not a big deal. </p>

<p>** as a disclaimer, there are some schools that do really good and cool things through NHS, but those school are few and far between. If you do belong to one of those schools, then it is worth it to join NHS. Otherwise, I would tell you to not worry about it at all.</p>

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<p>You might wanna check with you GC about that form though - make sure it’s nothing permanent.</p>

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<p>Vlines: What makes you say that about NHS. What did they do to you child?</p>