<p>What's the criteria at your school for National Honor Society? At my school, you need:</p>
<p>-a 3.5 weighted GPA
-3 leadership positions
-40 hours of community service per year</p>
<p>You need to submit a portfolio showing that you meet this criteria.</p>
<p>I had a 3.9 GPA unweigted GPA and was a respected office holder in both SGA and FBLA.</p>
<p>The requirement for National Honors society here is</p>
<p>A 3.5 GPA
An AP/Honors diploma</p>
<p>Because I moved from a different state to this state, they gave me a regulars diploma in the 9th grade until I switched to Honors/ap in the 10th.</p>
<p>But because my 9th year was regulars, my diploma was regular type.</p>
<p>Even though I had the other requirements, because of my diploma type I was denied entrance. Other students who got in, some of them have failed AP history and ENGLISH this year.</p>
<p>Yeah, Welcome to Alabama.</p>
<p>3.5 unweighted GPA
60 hours of community service when applying</p>
<p>and 20 each year you’re in NHS, to stay in the club</p>
<p>92 GPA, 100 hours of community service + 50 hours of ‘leadership’. 50 more hours per year to stay.</p>
<p>What exactly is considered a “leadership” position? just wondering…</p>
<p>95% Grade - IDK if it’s W or UW</p>
<p>Some number of ‘service’ clubs (as in not board game club) I think the # is either 3 or 4</p>
<p>40 hours of community service</p>
<p>2 teacher recommendations</p>
<p>Also, leadership is suggested, and your character is evaluated by a committee (that part draws some student complaints)</p>
<p>^^ Leadership is like formal recognition of your prominent role in a club, organization, or activity. Such as VP of club whatever or head of blank committee. And NHS is totally useless btw. Schools can already see your grades and activities on your application, so unless you have an officer position, it’s like who cares.</p>
<p>89 weighted, an essay, and some kind of service, achievement, and leadership</p>
<p>90 UW and 3 clubs per year…yea so about half of the senior class is in NHS. My HS has major grade inflation.</p>
<p>Very subjective at our school. My son had great grades and many hours of volunteer time (church, mission trips, etc) as well as extracurricular activities and he was not accepted. Primarily kids involved in key club, scouts or 4h are accepted. He chose not to apply the next year.</p>
<p>At my school just some stupid crap. Very pointless club</p>
<p>Funny how illegitimate my school’s NHS is. Need something like 3.3 GPA. You fill out a form that asks about service and leadership, but you don’t really need anything to get in. Once in, you need to do 12 hours of school-related service per year (and for each event you do, the amount of hours is generally curved up).</p>
<p>My school is pretty lax about it, just like notanengineer’s. You need a 3.5 UNWEIGHTED, which is ridiculously easy. Besides that, you just write about a paragraph of what you do and why you think you should be inducted. The only requirement to maintain membership is to get a certain number of tutoring hours a year. You can even tutor your friends to meet this requirement.</p>
<p>90 UW
Write an essay
At least 5 ECs, approved by a teacher.
At least 3 leadership positions.</p>
<p>I’m not joking.</p>
<p>I think the NHS at my school must be the easiest to get into. You need a 3.5 unweighted and do 20 hours per semester to stay in the club. Of course, you need to pay a $4 as well for your membership fee. I joined my sophomore year, but decided to quit after the first semester.</p>
<p>I don’t know all of the requirements, but i do know that you need to be Junior/Senior to join, so as a rising sophomore, I haven’t researched much into it. =/</p>
<p>95 GPA, A service project and 2 clubs</p>
<p>The better question is why would anyone want to be in NHS? Not much benefit, and does not add to the student as a whole (except in very rare clubs).</p>
<p>its equally pointless in my school. </p>
<p>3.5 GPA
write 3 essays (character service leadership), 2 must involve in school activities
20 hours community service per year (seriously…? 20 hours???)</p>
<p>thats it. it’s very overrated and so many people get in. the club does a few events throughout the year but only the officers actually do work.</p>
<p>@vlines: I only applied to wear the cord at graduation next year 
my school doesn’t give cords for anything else but NHS so I wanted it. </p>
<p>I’ll list NHS on my resume but I won’t say anything more than that I was simply a member. I’m not going to pretend I actually did something through the club because,well, I didn’t. I imagine colleges would see right through NHS on an app if someone made it seem like a big deal because it usually isn’t… but again, the exception to this is if you’re an officer (at least in my opinion) because they do all the work at my school.</p>