Rejected by National Honor Society but people below me got accepted?

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Hi College Confidential,

I was recently rejected by National Honor Society in my school (I’m a current junior). However, 10 days ago, I got an application that stated I was “qualified” to go to National Honor Society due to my GPA being above the class, so I did an application.

The reason why I most likely got rejected was probably because in my application I only wrote 2 leadership positions than the maximum of 3 leadership positions in the packet. It asked for how many leaderships I obtained, and I only put 2. Other people who were many ranks and GPAs below me got accepted and they put 3 (the maximum). Those people barely met the minimum of NHS (3.7 GPA) while my GPA was a 4.09. I’m also #13 out of 100 students in my class.

My Leadership positions that I wrote were:
President & Founder of NHP App Dev. Club
Reporter for HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America)

So my questions are:
Will being in NHS show on my transcript or is it something in my resume?
Will Universities think negatively of my application if they see that I did not get into NHS? (My goal University is the University of Texas at Austin Computer Science Program)
Can I still get accepted into NHS my 12th grade year, and will colleges see that I did not get in my 11th grade year?

Thanks.

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Nhs is something you optionally add to your ECs. It’s not a huge deal.

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You may want to check with the advisor to make sure that a mistake wasn’t made.

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They won’t know whether or not you even applied to NHS. Being accepted to NHS is not about GPA or academics as much as it is community service though.

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The answers to your 3 questions: No, no, you shouldn’t really care b/c it matters almost nothing.

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NHS is sort of a way to honor that you got a good GPA, did community service, showed leadership and have good character.

Whether or not you get the NHS designation is not as important to your application as those other things in and of themselves.

A college will not know if you didn’t apply or you did apply and got rejected, or you got in and didn’t put it on your application.

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Agree, it won’t matter for college admissions. But you can double check with your advisor to see if there was no mistake.

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I’m pretty sure nobody cares about NHS. Too many kids have it, so on its own it really doesn’t mean much anymore, and if you’re not part of NHS but have an otherwise strong profile, people will assume that you had better ways to use your time than worry about getting into NHS. At this point it really just fades into the background and I think most people would just gloss right over it when reading an application.