<p>Are you are in NHS? If so, what was the GPA requirement to be accepted?</p>
<p>Also, how heavily do colleges weigh your involvement in this?</p>
<p>no-kept on forgetting to turn in the form, i think the gpa requirement at my school is a 3.5(maybe?)</p>
<p>i'm sure membership will help in terms of EC's, but i got into college without it.</p>
<p>my school is 3.5, our nhs has a point requirement (100 per year) for each member, to insure that everybody in the club is working.....</p>
<p>do colleges see national honor society as a good thing?</p>
<p>I think NHS is the most pointless, beaurocratic (spelln') club ever.</p>
<p>I think so too, and I'm our school's NHS President! :-p</p>
<p>It's a 3.5 here too.</p>
<p>pointless and hypocritical, got in and then kicked out at the same time for something I didn't do sophomore year for something. They got ****ed when I appealed, and I found pathetic and hypocritcal that they let seniors in who were unqualified with discipline records. Then this year nearly half go on academic probration for discipline adn slipping graded. As far as I know, Im the school's only valedictorian not to be in NHS.</p>
<p>I'm one or two in the class and not in NHS apparently I didn't have enough service hours. Baloney.. Oh well. Most of my friends were kicked out and everyone's always panicing about it, I guess it's good not to have that added stress.</p>
<p>3.67 To get in at my school. -.-</p>
<p>3.5 gpa at my school and nhs is a waste of time...wow we have a ninety or above average... what a accopmlishment... its pointless</p>
<p>What's the point of the whole thing? All I see is people talking about meetings and stuff but nothing actually happens at the end of the day.</p>
<p>The ONLY things NHS did was : 1. a teacher breakfast <em>whoop--de-do</em> and 2. a winter carnival booth (which ALL clubs have)</p>
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<p>lol atleast yours does that much. The one in my school sits around and picks there nose until visitors come and then the school shows off as if they were god's children or something special. Most of them are serious idiots, a 3.5 is not hard to get in my school especially since a A+ is a 4.2, a 3.5 is now a B/B-.</p>
<p>well 3.5 unweighted.... im sure for yours 4.2 is weighted</p>
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<p>As a grain of salt, like who's who. Its not really all that prestigous, most people have it on thier apps. Not having may raise an eyebrow but they really don't care about being in NHS. What they do care is what you do in NHS. If you actually follow academic pursuits, volunteer and your chapter is real active, then colleges will take into consideration the work you did in NHS. Other than that, being in NHS isn't all that special.</p>
<p>My class needed an 88 to get into NHS, plus comm. service, etc. (Now they've upped it to a 90 average).</p>
<p>Funny story... right after we got into NHS, the advisors left... so since we got into it, there've been NO meetings and NO activity. Heh, kind of funny. The only time we got together as a group was to get our picture taken for the yearbook. "Alright guys, I'll see you at next week's meeting... Oh right, there are no meetings."</p>
<p>how active does your chapter of NHS have to be to be considered 'active'?? We do 20+ hrs / semester...
How much does volunteer work count for when you are applying to college? (eep...)</p>
<p>My D's school has a 3.75% GPA and service+leadership requirements. Sophs w/ a 3.75% or better didn't get in--the GPA is not the only requirement. Once in you have to tutor and mentor a younger student. It does not seem to be an "empty" club at all.</p>
<p>The community service you do as part of NHS will be viewed positively by colleges. You status as an NHS member will do little by itself to help you get into college.</p>
<p>NHS has no national standards. It can be very good at one hs and pretty much a total waste at another. Membership can be serious or based on just a popularity contest (either by fellow students or by teachers). There are a lot of threads on CC about it. If admitted, take it. At the elite colleges, almost all applicants are in and so it doesn't mean anything to have it on your app. Ironically, not having it doesn't mean anything either. Being an NHS officer is good because it shows leadership.</p>