<p>Member benefits extend beyond your selected reading of our list; for example, our college fairs provide NSHSS members with the opportunity to connect with dozens of top universities around the world. NSHSS regularly hosts at least 4 college fairs a year. </p>
<p>Another benefit is the partnerships that NSHSS has developed with such companies as Aflac and the Alzheimer’s Association. These organizations provide exclusive scholarships and programs for NSHSS members. For instance, the Alzheimer’s Association recently provided free registration for NSHSS members for its Longest Day event, as well as providing an exclusive scholarship to NSHSS members that participated.</p>
<p>And I’ll admit, there are some small scholarships awarded through NSHSS.</p>
<p>But I haven’t yet seen anything particularly special or exclusive about NSHSS.</p>
<p> NSHSS is one way among hundreds to find small scholarships.
NSHSS holds college fairs, but so do most school systems.
NSHSS has members-only web content. So has USNWR. I have to wonder what there is in NSHSSs web contentother than puff pieces on NSHSS–that isnt also on the College Boards web site, or College Confidential, or elsewhere on the internet. I dont expect you to tell me, because it *is *proprietary, but even without NSHSS, a person could almost drown in the volume of college information available on the web.
NSHSS has a monthly e-newsletter. College Board sends registered students and their parents monthly emails.
NSHSS offers nique outreach from top domestic & international universities. It may be unique, but is it necessary? Any student who checks the YES box on the PSAT registration winds up with an email inbox thats practically choked with outreach from “top” colleges and universities.
NSHSS has unique offerings through its partners. So have my MasterCard, my insurance company, the public radio station I donated to, and the dealership where I get my car serviced.</p>
<p>Really, I’m actually nicer about NSHSS than most people on College Confidential are. I have said repeatedly that I don’t think you’re trying to rip people off, and that’s a minority opinion around here. But I do think that NSHSS’s marketing is a lot of hype, and I suspect that NSHSS’s bread and butter is collecting a ton of data about college-intending seniors, and I think that in exchange for the price of membership, NSHSS offers students an “honor” that’s pretty empty and a lot of information they could get almost anywhere. Which is why I continue to say that I think NSHSS is not a good value.</p>
<p>And I resent that you’ve come to College Confidential to shill for your company, although I respect you for having the integrity to create a screen name that clearly links you with your business, instead of making up some other identity.</p>
<p>Quick question, it says that I can put this on my Common App., under awards/honors won. Is this true, because let me tell you something, if playing video games was an honor, I’d be a prestigiously honored member. Any award/society is good for me. IS THIS LEGITIMATE? I already have NMS semi-finalist and NHS under my belt. Might go for a hat trick…</p>
<p>Parthiv, colleges would laugh at you and consider you a sucker if they saw NSHSS on your application… If you’re a National Merit Semifinalist, you definitely shouldn’t bother with this con job.</p>
<p>NSHSS provides substantial scholarships, ranging from $250 to $40,000. Most scholarships award at least $1000 dollars to NSHSS winners. All of our scholarships are merit-based.</p>
<p>@NSHSS01 I have a quick question. What makes NSHSS stand out from other honor societies (e.g. NHS)? You say that NSHSS “regularly hosts at least 4 college fairs a year” but most schools/cities do the same thing.</p>
<p>Basically, I don’t believe that is worth $60 since there are thousands of other places to find scholarships or college fairs or service/leadership opportunities. Convince me otherwise.</p>
<p>Providing vanity scholarships is only a part of the equation. If you are serious about changing the reputation of your organization, a good start might be to provide working links to your filed forms 990 as well as links to audited statements. Unless your organization is still a FOR PROFIT organization! </p>
<p>Next, it would be a good idea to lift the curtain of some past or present affiliations that are, to put it mildy, quite suspect. Care to enlighten us about the work of Lewis at Golden Key? </p>
<p>To be clear of my position, this is what I wrote in 2007:</p>
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<p>The problem with a defense from libel or slander, is that the allegations have to be … false. It seems that people who scratch the surface are merely pointing to the facts behind an organization that could benefit from full disclosure of its financial motives. Well, the members who sent their contributions could; the people who line their pockets … that is another story.</p>
<p>I had to laugh – MommaJ warned us that NSHSS would be on here before long, trying to negate the truthful (and negative) reports about this money-making venture. And voila! --only a week or so later, here comes NSHSS01, repeating the same things they put in their letter to my son.</p>
<p>Re: the press release – they write it up, and mail it to you – but then YOU have to find the addresses and mail it to the newspapers yourself. Give me a major break.</p>
<p>What makes me REALLY mad is that it’s such a let-down for the kids when they find out – after seeing the official looking letter and engraved “membership confirmation” – that it’s nothing more than a way to sucker them into paying $60, buying a T-shirt, a Track jacket ($40), buying a stuffed “Leopold” lion, female thank-top ($15), a graduation honor cord ($15), and then they even have the unmitigated gall to try and bilk the kids out of a $15 LATE FEE.</p>
<p>Hoax is too strong of a word. Someone from my school was one of the recipients of the Claes Nobel Academic Scholarship which is for $5,000. If you’re really to spend, you might end up with a pretty nice scholarship.</p>
<p>I am usually reluctant to revive old threads, but I have an interesting anecdote to share that sheds some light on NSHSS’s selectivity and thoroughness.</p>
<p>Twice in the last month, they have emailed my 16-year-old to tell her that she should act quickly to accept her invitation to join NSHSS. This particular kid had to drop out of the ninth grade for medical reasons, and has never been back to high school since.</p>
Today, my homeschooled, high school senior received the invitation from NSHSS to become a member. On the outside of the envelope, below and to the right of the mailing address area, was the name of the high school where my daughter took the PSAT test. How prestigious do they think it would be for her to receive a personalized, “special” membership certificate from NSHSS showing the name of a school they THINK she attended just because she took her PSAT test there! It’s just a “come on” for this company to get money. Don’t be fooled.
We just got our second invitation on Friday, @nanasusanna. Did you notice the font made to look like it was hand written? You had to look really hard but my zip code has two 4s. And you can tell that both were the same.
As a parent of a hard working high school junior, I want to say How Dare you send your propaganda to my child. She thought that she had made some extraordinary accomplishment for her time and commitment that she had made.