<p>Can someone tell me what this is? My son is in 10th grade and he received a letter telling him he has been nominated for membership. Any big deal?</p>
<p>No big deal. But check out the website to see if access to the scholarship competitions are worth the price for your S.</p>
<p>Nominated? By whom?? Doesn't it make you wonder?</p>
<p>My son received the same thing (11th grader) and I think we got it last year too. Husband saw the small notation I missed that you have to pay for the honor. Makes you think twice about this. To many scams out there (not that I know anything about this one) but I'd investigate this before paying any money. Who are they choosing and how?</p>
<p>Your son can apply to the National Honor Society through your HS in Jr. year and we know that it is recognized by all colleges (although the admission reps may not take much notice as each school makes up its own standards of who is admitted and who is not.) (another thread about that).</p>
<p>If you find out information about this, please post it for the rest of us!</p>
<p>Turn on your printer; I'm about to give you your retirement income plan.</p>
<p>Come up with a grandiose title. Something like "National All-American Honor Society of Scholarly High School Servant Leaders." Look around until you find someone with a famous last name who's looking for an easy buck. An Einstein would be great. A Nobel is also good. Settle for a Roosevelt, Eisenhower or Kennedy if you must. Pay that person to be your figurehead and to write a letter indicating how this society perpetuates the life works of their famous distant relative, and how kids like yours are the inheritors of the world that great-step-granddad helped to create. Send Fred Roosevelt's letter to every guidance counselor in the country and ask for nominees, explaining how great it will be for their school when they can publicize all their honored students, how the honor is free, and how those students will be aided in their college searches and have a shot at generous scholarships. Create a glitzy promotional piece to send out to all the parents of the GCs' nominees, indicating how prestigious this honor is and how the proud parents will surely want to pay only $69 for the hardcover NAAHSSHSSL book (or $119 for the deluxe faux leather bound version, and perhaps $49 for the framed certificate, $19 for the key ring, and $199 for the coveted semi-precious jeweled pin by which the Society's honorees recognize one another). Put a couple percent of the revenue in a scholarship fund and give out modest grants to the students who write the best testimonials about how the Society helped them get into the dream school for which they'd have never otherwise been competitive. Redirect a substantial amount of the revenue into a special one-week Washington D.C.-based "Young Leaders of America" seminar, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for which next year's parents will have to raise only $3850. Put the rest of the proceeds into your retirement fund, except for a couple grand which you'll want to use next year to fire Fred Roosevelt and hire Fred Einstein.</p>
<p>^^^^^^ Lmao</p>
<p>My freshman got one, too....definitely NOT an elite thing if we got one!! LOL...SCAM!</p>
<p>GDAD: thank you so much for making me laugh and laugh. I logged on to see if this was indeed a scam, and of course it is. We’ve gotten so many invitations for “leadership forums” etc. But this National Society of High School Scholars is very deceptive as to access to scholarships etc. The Abercrombie and Finch scholarship? Really? Sheesh.</p>