<p>Congratulations. Based on your outstanding academic achievement at your high school, you have been nominated for membership in The National Society of High School Scholars.</p>
<p>My first reaction:
What the *<strong><em>! Couldn't they have sent this a few months earlier? Maybe that would have boosted my chances for Tufts and Harvard. *</em></strong>.</p>
<p>So now I have to confirm my membership by April 30th, but I don'T really know if it's worth it any more.</p>
<p>Honestly, the membership wouldn’t have helped you in the admissions process at all, especially at schools like Tufts and Harvard, so don’t feel bad.</p>
<p>It’s great marketing. Display some sense of exclusivity, play on students’ and parents’ desire to look more “honored”, toss a few “benefits” such as their small scholarship program, buy lists of honor roll kids from school districts needed extra sources of income – make a ton of money. Gotta love good ol’ American entrepreneurship.</p>
<p>Any “honor” which is generated from a purchased mailing list and requires you to pay $60 – is pretty much worthless no? When you’re in a position to hire employees, how would you view someone who says they got a Masters degree from an online firm who sells diplomas? In my mind, this shares the same odor.</p>
<p>Lump this together with “Who’s Who in American High Schools” solicitations and toss it in the trash bin.</p>