<p>My son got an invitation to join this. The mailing said you had to be nominated and he was. Is this helpful on college resumes? Does everyone who has a good GPA get nominated to this? This particular one has a one time fee of $45.00 although there are fee waivers available. </p>
<p>He received another one for the National Medical Forum in Texas or something like that. It came to the school, fancy envelope, paper etc. It cost approx $3,000 to attend. He was not interested in that one. </p>
<p>Do these organizations all get their information from the same place? Which invitations or nominations really matter and which ones should you accept?</p>
<p>He was identified in the 7th grade talent search for Duke Tip. Are we correct in assuming that he can't mention this on list of achievements?</p>
<p>So funny. I was about to post to ask the same question relating to the National Society of College Scholars. My son received an e-mail about that one. I told him I thought it was a scam since there is a $75 fee. Any "honor" that requires you to pay something is typically not a real honor. Does anyone have any other thoughts?</p>
<p>And srobin -- no, he shouldn't mention about Duke TIP in the 7th grade. Colleges only care about honors that are received in high school. My son got that as well, and there was no way he was going to include it. Hopefully yours will have more relevant, recent honors to include.</p>
<p>He can mention anything he wants on his resume.
Most of the applications, however, ask for activities year by year, starting in 9th grade.
You will get all kinds of fancy invitations to forums and summer programs. Most of them are expensive. If your son is interested in the subject matter and activities, then by all means go. But don't do it to just to enhance his resume. If that's what you are after, it's likely that the time (and money) spent can go towards something else that really will enhance his resume (and him).</p>
<p>You can always say "Nominated for National Society of this or that". That way you demonstrate two things to the resume reader. You were nominated, and you weren't duped into paying the money.</p>
<p>Read the annual report (which is not really a complete financial report). In 2006, NSHSS inducted almost 80,000 new members of which they gave hardship fee waivers to slightly more than 1100 members. That means they had fee revenues in excess of $3,000,000. They awarded $64,000 in scholarships. To date, they have collected almost $9 million in membership fee revenue and awarded $600,000 in scholarships. This revenue item does not include corporate donations I believe.</p>
<p>They seem to have a lot of legitimate affiliations; however, to me, that's a lot of dough spent on 'meet and greets' and salaries.</p>
<p>Thanks for the information, that's kinda what we thought. Today was SAT day again we keeping our fingers crossed that his score will increase. He seems positive it will.</p>
<p>Any award which wants you to pay to recieve the award, or any 'scholarship' which wants you to pay to apply, is essentially a scam. They may be official 'on the books' organizations, but they're not prestigious and are essentially just trying to make money. Any award which is worth more than the paper its printed on will have established its own endowment or other financial funding to pay for all its running costs.</p>
<p>It's a scam. They might award some small part of their income but basically it's a money-making scam. There are several other similar ones - Who's who, etc.</p>
<p>Just wanted to remark that the comments in posts #2 and #7, that worthwhile awards do not have associated costs, should not be over-generalized by college students. At some universities, there may be costs associated with joining Phi Beta Kappa, but it's "for real." Some universities--but not all--pay all of the costs of the students they elect. One of my advisees did not accept the invitation to join Phi Beta Kappa, because of unfamiliarity with it and previous experiences with a lot of dubious honorary groups.</p>
<p>Questionable at best. My child received an application requesting 60 dollars. She doesn’t meet the grade level or GPA requirement. How credible can they be when the information, about students, they receive is not accurate. Looks more like a bulk mailing list.</p>
<p>I thought the same thing about some goofy “honor” my D received from US Achievement Academy. You had the option to pay and have your picture in their book or just fill out the application and you are eligible for “scholarships”. She decided to send the free app and they just sent her a check for $200. I cashed the check instead of depositing - just in case - and deposited the cash in my kid’s savings account. Maybe it’s a scam - but the 200 bucks seemed legit!
It’s a shame how many “companies” will scam deserving young people!!!</p>
<p>Entrepreneurs are aware of the rigor of admission to top colleges and the weight placed upon honors and awards. They will gladly sell you an award that will make you think that you’re helping your student to build their resume. They will also sell that same award to 80,000 other HS students each year. College admissions offices see “National Society for High School Scholars” and other such commercial honors all the time, and routinely ignore them.</p>
<p>Yes, the is a HUGE SCAM! The sleazebag Lewis is bilking cash strapped high school families, pretending he is affiliated the the National Honor Society when he just walks away with most of the money. Google this situation and you will see he is a crook. Finally, he gets the information about minors illegally. I know, I am a parent and he mailed my kid some fancy packet without even contacting our school. Stay away and don’t send any money!</p>
<p>i think the national society for high school scholars is a scam because it asks for money, and money alone, to join. the joke is, your son/daughter can then use this “honor” on their resume’. what a laugh. nothing earned!</p>
<p>I honestly have to go with everyone else on this. I received this letter today in the mail and I was puzzled. I usually get A’s and B’s but my grade in one of my classes was horrible the first two advisories(raised it up this advisory to an A). With that, I don’t understand how “based on my outstanding academic achievement” I get this “awesome” scholarship in which my parents/I have to pay $60. </p>
<p>I could understand if I had straight A’s across the board or even if i had ALL A’s and B’s, but in this circumstance…I highly doubt this is worth something.</p>