<p>Hey everyone. I was thinking about running for president at my school for the NHS. I am relatively confident that I will be able to win, but i was wondering if it is a great extracurricular to add to your resume? Would it be like eye-catching to the admissions process at UVA? Also, to other people who are currently in this position. Is it a hard task to maintain your responsibilities? Would it be manageable? For me, this would be for my senior year with a decent schedule. Any help/advice/ or insight would be helpful!</p>
<p>I wouldn't imagine that it's eye-catching, as it is more of a popularity contest than anything. However, it would be a nice thing to have to add to your list.</p>
<p>i think it really depends on the calibre of your school. last year, the nhs president got into amherst college ED and this year's has already been accepted to yale. it may not be the best extracurricular, but it may help colleges see academic leadership in anyther way. concerning responsibilities, at least at my school, nhs really doesn't do all that much and the presidents only have a few responsibilities per year.</p>
<p>National Honor Society shows three things to college admission directors: 1. Extracurricular activity, 2. Volunteer Work (as all NHS members are require 8 hours of services from the school and at least 2 or 3 hours of personal service not brought up by the NHS), and 3. Academic Excellence, seeing how you must maintain a 93 average to retain membership.</p>
<p>Of course, it changes at every school, and I know people at my school with like 3.0s who are in.</p>
<p>I wouldn't say it's eyecatching either. When I was secretary for my NHS, our president didn't do S H I T! At least with all the clubs I've observed, the secretary seems to be the backbone of it all. (I could just be biased though.) All our President did was read the agendas I made and "conducted" the meeting since he had really good BSing skills. Of course, this most is not to put down you or any other president. Just that it's definitely managable.</p>
<p>thanks everyone! i will take everything into consideration, but i think i will run for it. Since it is senior year for me next year, i say why not? lol, thanks</p>
<p>The president of my chapter wrote an essay about NHS and how much she enjoys volunteering/giving back to the community and how she enjoys leading. This way, colleges will see that you are in this for more than the title. I'm vice-president, but I didn't emphasize it or anything. Volunteerism speaks for itself.</p>
<p>"National Honor Society shows three things to college admission directors: 1. Extracurricular activity, 2. Volunteer Work (as all NHS members are require 8 hours of services from the school and at least 2 or 3 hours of personal service not brought up by the NHS), and 3. Academic Excellence, seeing how you must maintain a 93 average to retain membership."</p>
<p>Except that they evaluate all these things themselves, so why should they care what your local NHS chapter thinks?</p>
<p>If the only reason that you're running is for resume decoration, your presidency will not likely impress the very top colleges such as HPYS. Presidencies of state of national organizations are what make HPYS applicants stand out. </p>
<p>Simply being school NHS president would probably impress most state flagships, second tier schools, etc. Being NHS president would impress higher caliber schools if you accomplished some major things during your presidency. This could be, for instance, greatly increasing the chapter's fund raising for charity or starting a major new volunteer project.</p>
<p>Since you haven't mentioned having such plans, it doesn't sound like your presidency would be the kind of thing that would impress the top colleges.</p>
<p>Meh. I was an NHS president and got into a top-tier school.</p>
<p>YMMV though.</p>
<p>I am the NHS president at my school as a sophomore and I was wondering if anything I did was helpful. I raised service requirements to include mandatory help with our volunteer drives. We raised many stuffed animals (long story) for the local police department. I also organized an effort that raised $4700 for the American Red Cross for Tsunami relief and also started and organized a canned food drive for our school that due to our new requirements for members and size of our chapter (over 200) will raise over 2500 cans for the North Texas Food Bank. I was wondering if this type of NHS presidency adds anything. Personally, I do enjoy service, but getting into Yale has been my lifelong goal.</p>