National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS)

<p>When I look at each of the senior’s list of activities on their senior page, I always laugh to myself when I see NSHSS.</p>

<p>It’s not a scam or a hoax. The organization is legitimate. However, needing to pay money to join renders it more of a paid honor than a true honor. So while it is a real thing, and they’re not simply out to get your money, there is a level of dubiousness in the whole situation.</p>

<p>I joined NSHSS, btw. It’s not a bad thing. But there are some adcoms that say that putting NSHSS on a college resume will not help you at all.</p>

<p>It’s for >>seniors<<, right?</p>

<p>Well, I just started high school, and got one of those letters, but it says to pay $60. Most of the replies I read say $45.</p>

<p>This is weird.</p>

<p>I am currently a freshman. I have a 4.1 GPA though…?</p>

<p>i got invited, and i am a member, its most certainly not a scam…i actually went to a conference sponsered by them and met people that could help me get into ivy league. id encourage anyone to spend a measly 45$ and join.</p>

<p>^funny…</p>

<p>I got invited… and now that they sent me more info… I cant find anyone else in my school that got invited and I have NO IDEA who could have nominated me… Also I do well in school, I take AP and honors classes but I also mange to do not so awesome in some classes so that my weighted GPA is around a 90… not super good but good enough </p>

<p>Im considering it… they asked for 60 dollars (or more money if I want to buy a sweatshirt, teeshirt, stuffed animal etc etc)</p>

<p>If im not mistaken don’t you have to pay for NHS as well?</p>

<p>thanx</p>

<p>anyone? </p>

<p>???</p>

<p>We don’t pay for NHS in our high school.</p>

<p>My son recieved “the postcard” invitation last year. Yes, he did join. What did he get? That’s hard to answer. He is homeschooled and our oversight program does not have an honor society. We felt that this honors society gave him something to put on his college appliocations/scholarship apps. Did it help? Perhaps someone from admissions could tell you. What we do know is that he got accepted to City College. He has also received a renewable $2500 ($10,000), the Heritage Award at UMBC, Coca Coca semi-finalist,… These scholarships,… get so incredibly competitive from all of these outstanding cc’ers, I felt it was worth the $60 just to be able to put something on his apps. If he attended school, I’m not so sure if I would. have done it. I think if I could afford the $60, I would do it and hope the people in admissions are laughing themselves silly at us:)</p>

<p>lol - I’m using my younger son’s netbook, and things keep disappearing on me. My son was accepted to engineering at Villanova, UMBC, Maryland- Honors and still waiting on Duke and Grove City</p>

<p>I think im going to do… I just gotta send in the stuff</p>

<p>yeah i got that too. i went to the site and it seeemd legit. its all fancy and stuff. but it doesnt really specify what u clearly get out of it…like th eonly thing that u can do is put it on ur college apps…i dunno what it is…plus my grades are nothing great. seriously i dunno why they chose me and not anyone else…so maybe its a scam</p>

<p>I got an invitation for that too. I wonder how you get invited. My gpa is only 3.5.</p>

<p>I got it, too. I’m wondering if it’s a scam.</p>

<p>just putting this out there, but at my school there is a fee to join NHS: $10 to pay for the cake at the induction ceremony</p>

<p>NHS is a school popularity contest. In our school, the supervising teachers <em>choose</em> who they give the “honor” to - if there are 50 kids with the 3.5 GPA (or whatever it is), they might choose 15.</p>

<p>And they do charge a yearly fee. It’s on their website.</p>

<p>I got one of those NSHSS things today…?? I can’t pay for it, so I will write them a letter. Hey, a free honor is fine with me.</p>

<p>I got that too. If I got it, their standards must not be very high. :P</p>

<p>Somebody needs to lock this thread, it’s 8 pages of people saying the same things over and over for the past 5 years…</p>

<p>Okay guys, I go tthe invitation to. Ligit. All the way. I have family members that are life-long members, and teachers that have been awarded by this Assiciation. I am a straight A senior in high school ranked in the top 10 in my class. Its a bit expensive but some of the benefits of being associated with this are well worth the small pay out. And yes… It’s prestigious.</p>

<p>^Congratulations! You have succeeded in convincing me that NSHSS is pretty much a scam. Go spam someplace else.</p>