<p>I plan joining my Junior year, and It looks a lot of fun. I looked on my school website about the NHS but It doesn't really give enough information.</p>
<p>So, if anyone here is in the NHS, what's it like? Is this club time consuming? Or anything about this organization would be a big help. Thanks.</p>
<p>The way NHS is set up at my school, if you’re a regular member you have a meeting maybe 3-4 times a year and you’re required to do at least 16 service hours each year. I don’t know about how heavy the officer schedule is, but at a regular member it’s pretty relaxed at my school.</p>
<p>^ ha lucky.
At my school we meet every week and have to complete 15 hours of volunteer/community service every semester. And donate blood once a year.
Oh and you don’t join. You’re usually selected for it based on your GPA and stuff.</p>
<p>at my school , its pretty time consuming. we have a 1 hour meeting twice a month, if you are an officer, you meet 4 times a month, and everyone has to do 50+ hours of community service. we also have to organize a lot of little community service projects to do as the whole group which gets pretty annoying at times. guess it depends what school you go to.
try asking a current member at your school what its like</p>
<p>bump for interest, I’m planning on joining my school’s NHS in the spring.</p>
<p>i dont wanna join our schools NHS. a lot of nerds. well im a nerd myself, but i dont like to be around other nerds. i like to be the only nerd in my group</p>
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<p>I’m this way too. I’m more of a jock than a nerd, but still somewhat nerdy. I find it unavoidable to be with other “nerds”, in my AP classes there are none of my jock friends, but many nerds to make friends with.</p>
<p>At my school you need 40 hours of community service by graduation. We meet about every other month, but it’s okay I guess and not really timhe consuming.</p>
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<p>My school’s NHS is so lax. It’s run by a teacher - we don’t have any officers at all, and we’re just required to do 5 hours of community service per semester for that, and then another 5 for CSF if you join. You meet once at the beginning of the year to sign up, and after you’ve done your community service, all you do is turn your card in. Anyone can sign up if they have the minimum grades.</p>
<p>Sadly, the teacher in charge was a bit vague last semester when it came to signups, so she denied me membership for last semester. I didn’t know that we had to put our name on a list the week before meetings to actually sign up, so she said that it was too much of a hassle to add my name to her database thing, and I didn’t get to join. She’s incredibly unreasonable about that, I mean damn, it was just a typed list haha, it’s easy enough to hit enter or add a cell or whatever.</p>
<p>donate blood? really, that seems a little demanding of a high school program</p>
<p>^ haha it’s not that bad. Half the time I don’t get to because I have low iron. But there’s a new free shirt every year.</p>
<p>Much be some strict requirement to get in cause I never even heard about them much.</p>
<p>yeah we have blood drives at my school too. and we don’t have to donate blood, but we do get to miss a class to help out with the blood drive. and we get free snacks 
but most of you guys NHS clubs sound so easy ! you have to have a minimum 3.5 GPA to get invited (yeah you can’t just sign up) and if you get invited you have to write an essay on why you wanna join/credentials blah blah AND get a letter of recommendation … and you have to have some solid volunteer hours under your belt otherwise they won’t consider you </p>
<p>we take community service so seriously its soooo annoying. and they force us to do a certain type of community service … we can’t even choose. i don’t mind even mind volunteering I like it, but I at least want a say in what i do. </p>
<p>All this for a sash at graduation …</p>
<p>Ours is kind of hard,
you have to be top 20 percent(so a high gpa) to have a chance to apply
hold leadership positions & have community service to have a good chance to get in. Getting leadership positions is hard during soph. year.
Also have recs and essays.</p>
<p>If you get in, you meet every couple of weeks. Must have 10 hrs of community service per semester.</p>
<p>Ha! 10 hours of community service for NHS? Our school requires 25 for every student. But at least we get to pick them for the most part. We are required to do 1 hour of church, community, and school service each, totalling 3 hours that they pick for you and 22 that you pick.</p>
<p>NHS is legit like a scam. They take your money and there’s nothing in return. You’re required to do service for “points” in order to stay in. For us we have meetings every week or so with different service events, but really you don’t do anything unless you go to those service events. We have to have at least 50 by the end of the year to stay in. I’m only in it because we get something indicating that we’re in nhs on graduation day and it would be embarrassing if I didn’t have it.</p>
<p>NHS at my school is like a joke. You need to take 1 honors/ap class your freshman and sophomore years and have a 3.5 gpa to get in. You also hafta write and essay, but I’m pretty sure they don’t reject qualified people.
Once you’re in, you go to meetings once every month. They last all of 5 minutes normally, and really all that happens is that were told to check our e-mails. Yesterday we had a meeting, and I got yelled at for not going to tutoring. I had no idea I was on that committee. Its so unorganized.
You’re required to do 15 hours a year. That’s it. I help my mom organize, clean, and fit band uniforms and that fulfills my requirement.</p>