<p>At my school, all juniors and seniors who have a 3.5 gets nominated in the spring. The app is a list of activities, leadership positions, jobs, recognitions, and adult-verified community service hours. The principal makes the decisions. Most people get nominated, but only about 20-30 get in.</p>
<p>Ugh, I dislike NHS people at my school, I definitely turned down my chance, though I am a 3.7 and above student, b/c I feel that you don't need a group to show people that you are smart.</p>
<p>Our NHS chapter isn't about showing people that you're smart. It's about giving back to the school as well as the surrounding community. It runs events to raise money for our school and coordinates community service activities. One of the main things taken into account when our principal reviews our apps is community involvement and volunteerwork.</p>
<p>Oh I see then, your school has a lot of differences than mine..you see, I'm w/ all girls also, teachers and counselors play favorites...so NHS has no meaning at my school.</p>
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Yeah, that's how it's done at my school as well. We have four major things that happen in our NHS chapter: a school service project (serving food during finals), the Giving Tree (buying gifts for the less fortunate), the college panel (inviting the senior class back next year to answer questions about college), and the installation ceremony for the year after.</p>
<p>That's what SGA/Student Council(I am on it) is for..but seeing as my opinion doesn't matter on this thread, b/c I am not in NHS, I will be quiet and stop posting. I am not welcome here haha.</p>
<p>Our student council organizes events to raise funds for the school, not service efforts. All NHS profits go to charities and such.</p>
<p>We don't even have a chapter, but we have individual community service organizations that serve from other places (ie churches or community centers). Many of the students hold jobs and as such do not participate. The students with high GPA get little recognition unless they are Black, whence one can be interviewed by a panel of scholars for admission into the MAC program.</p>
<p>at my schools it's a 3.5 gpa (not very hard since it's your weighted gpa), a teacher recommendation, minimum 15 service hours, and a recommendation from the person who oversees your volunteer service. and they do limit the number of people admitted, so you have to choose very carefully who you want to recommend you.</p>
<p>3.8 weighted GPA
A resume
20 hours of community service prior to participation
Six membership and/or leadership positions
An essay
Review by a board of teachers</p>
<p>You can't join without invitation to apply.</p>
<p>Our NHS is such a joke-- officer elections are a popularity contest yielding people only interested in holding a position for the sake of holding a position, and because of this and a very poor advisor, the group does absolutely nothing. Seriously, nothing besides new inductions and perhaps one fundraiser to support said induction ceremony-- no service project requirement, no group charitable activities, nothing. It's so incredibly frustrating, but because of inactive and disinterested officers and an advisor of the same ilk, it seems like no efforts will change this. Last year the president actually did try to hold a fundraiser for tsunami relief, but no one else indeed showed up.</p>
<p>Requirements, obviously, aren't terribly rigorous-- a certain grade average (I'm not sure precisely what, but I suspect either 90 or a bit above is the cut-off) and a teacher nomination based on character gets you invited to apply, upon which time you complete a resume of sorts, detailing leadership roles, volunteering, academic merit, and work history. A panel then reviews the resumes and decides on the inductees, but basically, unless you've somehow displeased the faculty, you're in. It's the character test that is the hardest part of all this, I think-- my school is so small that everyone knows everything about everyone else, so one small mistake really screws you over come induction time. I'm a member, but I'm not particularly proud of this, as I suspect is obvious-- again, what an incredibly sad joke our NHS is.</p>
<p>we need 3.5, clubs, essay, and letter verifications for out of school activities. all due next friday.</p>
<p>Our NHS has a pretty simple induction process (3.5) and you must accumulate 100 points each year (different activities worth a different amount of points) Our NHS is very involved, student led, great advisors, excellent support from administration and faculty! i must say we do have a good nhs! and the elections are very big, campaigning, and they aren't popularity contests here, because i just recently won the treasurer spot against a well-qualified popular girl at our school....</p>
<p>^ Congratulations!</p>
<p>wow! you guys have to accomplish so much to get in to NHS.</p>
<p>here it's a 93 weighted GPA and that's it (needless to say there's a lot of people in, although not nearly as many as there should be, considering the rampant grade inflation at my public). hmmm</p>
<p>surprisingly, tho', its really serious....NHS does a lot of work in and out of school, and the elections, again, surprisingly, are not, generally, popularity contests.</p>
<p>Yeah, NHS is a joke at my school.</p>