<p>I am in NHS at my schools and they take it seriously although the club is really a joke. </p>
<p>Meetings are always cancelled, we havn't volunterred yet and every one in the club knows that it is a joke.</p>
<p>I'm president and it drives me crazy. We give people opportunities GALORE to get their hours and come to meetings and they still can't get their sorry asses to either the meeting or the makeup meeting. Our requirements aren't even the most difficult in the district... our sponsors are so laid back they're horizontal. Gah!</p>
<p>Ours is pretty strict. I don't think I'm gonna join. I don't know.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.5 and above (easy)
2 Leadership positions (hard)
3 long-term community services (i.e. season or year) (hard)
Raise lots of money (takes lots of time)
Tutoring (this is the only part I like about it; give me an opportunity to help people academically rather than pretend like kids are going to die unless I get money for under-privileged kids).</p>
<p>In my school you must have a 9.0 avarage or above and have a bunch of qualities like character, leadership and honesty. At first I found this orgnaization very interesting and the community service really gratifying. How ever, when I got nominated but not elected this year I realized something that changed my view towards NHS. I found out the same members of NHS are the ones who choose who is gonna enter the organization. Who are those students to judge others? Entering NHS means being liked by the memebers of it.... any logic??</p>
<p>Well, our NHS judges are anonymous teachers from our school. Students shouldn't judge due to possible favoritism.</p>
<p>We need a 4.3 (?) GPA (on a 5.3 scale). We then need to fill out this giant application, list our ECs, write an essay, etc. It's stupid, though, because everyone gets in, anyway =)</p>
<p>I was elected VP... so, yay.</p>
<p>NHS is just a label at my school. You have to send an application if you're eligible (3.75/4.00 GPA), but everyone automatically gets in.</p>
<p>We don't do anything, absolutely anything. We have an induction ceremony, and then a field trip.</p>
<p>I got my application packet today at my school. Our chapter seems like it actually does stuff.
It also seems really easy to get in to.</p>
<p>lol in our school its bascially nothing b/c like a 100 ppl r in it. but i joined anyway bc otherwise ppl think ur teachers hated u and didnt vote u in</p>
<p>At my current high school (I'm going to the Louisiana School for the Math, Science, and the Arts next year) these are the requirements for NHS:
1. 94% average or higher.
2. No more than 2 detentions a year (you get a detention for being tardy, so being late 3 times a year kisses your chances goodbye).
3. No suspensions.
4. Must write a resume.</p>
<p>I don't think very many people are turned down for NHS. Besides the newly created beta club (which hasn't even had a real meeting yet), NHS is one of the few academic clubs. The only other two I can think of are Key Club and the foreign language club.</p>
<p>At my HS we basically had to have a 3.75 or higher and write an essay, plus get some signatures of recommendation. The application was pretty easy and as long as you wrote a good essay you were in. The people who got rejected usually were the ones who did everything at the last minute.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if attendance and discipline played into anything. I had a clean discipline record and had perfect attendance throughout middle and high school so I'm thinking that may have helped me if it was between me and some other guy. Leadership was not a big deal with getting in, at the time I was not a leader of any club but had done some volunteer work for the school.</p>
<p>Once we got into NHS we had this cult-like induction ceremony with candles and everything. After that there were a few opportunites to serve, I tutored elementary kids and brought up some issues at the meetings but that was about it; we didn't do a whole lot.</p>