<p>i forgot to do the required community service for NHS</p>
<p>do colleges even care about NHS? do they ask people whether they're in NHS or not? it's not anything anybody at me school would put on the (an?) app without prior prompting</p>
<p>It depends on the college. Some will wonder about its absence and some do care. My daughter received a couple of thousand dollars a year scholarship for her membership. Not a fortune, but combined with other awards, attendance at an expensive school became possible.</p>
<p>I would doubt they look for it, frankly. I think it's nice to have-but I think there are far more interesting and important aspects to an app.</p>
<p>My school doesn't even have one.</p>
<p>Funny story about NHS.</p>
<p>I was inducted junior year, elected president for the upcoming senior year. Over the summer, someone sent in a nasty anonymous letter to the school with very false rumors about my partying habits, but very real pictures printed from Facebook of me and my friends drinking. I know, horrible judgment call on our part. Trust me, I know now. Anyways, I got kicked out of NHS. </p>
<p>Now, I've gotten into every school I've applied to thus far, only waiting on one more. I've been accepted into schools that NHS members have been deferred or rejected from. So no, I wouldn't say NHS plays a massive part in your college search.</p>
<p>(Also, maybe it's a good thing I got kicked out...the past 2 NHS presidents at our school have had rotten, rotten luck and only been accepted to one of their safety schools. Go figure.)</p>
<p>At my HS, students get inducted freshman year...so they don't need to qualify every single semester to stay in. Granted, you won't be considered a member for a semester if you don't qualify once, but if you qualify the next semester, you're back in.</p>
<p>BTW, which colleges care about NHS? Somebody (from a while back) said that they tended to be lower-tier schools...</p>
<p>Of course National Honor Society matters, colleges care that 1) your grades are good, 2) you take part in community service, and 3) you are a member of a national-scale academic club. It's not one of the biggest factors possible, but it certaintly won't hurt you.</p>
<p>^an academic club that requires 2hrs of community service per semester and a 3.5 GPA?</p>
<p>Siglio, you do understand that different schools have different criteria, right? Some schools require much higher GPAs and hundreds of hours of community service.</p>
<p>NHS does not matter and it's a joke at most high schools. I was valedictorian of my school and I refused to join it because it was full of people attempting to use the name to pad their EC's. It was recently a hot topic on these boards that colleges are becoming privy to people that have community service hours that are required of them (such as those that NHS requires).</p>
<p>Your's is a bit different from ours then. If you are in 4 or more pre IB or IB classes, you only need 5 special school-sponsored community service hours by a certain date (they happen once a monthish, and it began in october or november), also for these students you only need a 3.0+ GPA. And if you aren't in 4+ pre IB or IB classes, you need those hours, in addition to 10 outside community service hours (Key-club doesn't stack with these), and you need a 3.5 GPA, by the same date.</p>
<p>If you happen to get kicked out of NHS I wouldn't list it on college applications. Also I don't think listing NHS will make drastic changes to your acceptance chances, nor not listing it.</p>
<p>At a mid level public HS near me, they kicked out kid for writing unflattering letter to local newspaper. Made great essay. He went to H.</p>