<p>I was just rejected from the National Honor Society at my school, and I am absolutely furious. I must have gone over my application three or four times to make sure that I had everything necessary and then some. The only category that was a bit weak was my leadership but I still had something for it. The rejection letter was not helpful or personal to me at all; other than the signatures it appears pretty generic. I am taking challenging courses this year and I will explode if I find out that people in lower level and easier classes got in and I did not. </p>
<p>I am still shaking with anger and disappointment over this. I sent an e-mail to the head of the NHS at my school but I do not expect to hear from her until later this week. I really thought that I had a decent chance at getting in and this just rubs salt in the wound so to speak. </p>
<p>I don't know what to do with myself right now...I don't even know where I went wrong :(. My biggest concern now is what impact this will cause with my college applications. I could probably apply during my senior year but by the time I hear from the council, my applications will already have been sent in. Who cares at that point? I have other extracarricular activities but it would be nice to have NHS to boot...</p>
<p>Anyway, thank you for reading my rant. I'm sure many of you got into NHS, so congratulations.</p>
<p>I'm in NHS personally. But, I know many who felt the same way. I urge you to talk to this teacher about it so they can explain it. Colleges don't require you to be part of every single society and club in your school. And in retrospect, I really didn't care when I got in--and I won't care in fifty years. I'm sure that colleges won't reject you just because you didn't get into one society. Don't take it 100% personally. There might have been a condition about how many kids they can let in or something. These things are out of your hands. </p>
<p>Think of it this way: you have more free time to polish up the activities you care about! =]</p>
<p>I am in NHS but I wonder and so do many others wonder why a few kids didn't get in, I mean these people have all the requirements and beyond. As for college applications, really if you are strong in everything else, this shouldn't be a big thing.</p>
<p>Eh... NHS isn't a big deal around here. I have a few friends with higher GPAs than I do who didn't get in because they "didn't have enough leadership roles." Basically, we just didn't have room and they picked the people that they got first that qualified and then had to pick the absolute best of the best with the later comers. </p>
<p>What I'm saying is, don't take it too seriously. Can you try again next year?</p>
<p>Nh-what? They chased me down with the application and I guess I scribbled some junk onto it but I hardly care enough if I get in or don't. It's not really a big deal at ALL, trust me. You sound like you'll have more than enough on your college app as it is :)</p>
<p>Yeah, the people here are acting like NHS is a big deal. Applications are due this week for us, and my most lacking areas would be 'leadership' and community service, I guess.</p>
<p>How the hell do you demonstrate leadership in high school? It's not like you can run a country at 15 years old and it's not like I can bring up every time I've been made a team captain during neighborhood pickup games in soccer, basketball, and football...</p>
<p>And what defines an extracurricular activity anyways? Neighborhood sports can't be one unless I turn the 'league' into an organization and collect fees? Or maybe video games at a friend's house can't be one unless I make a Videogame Club at school? Or private language study into a Language Club? </p>
<p>^^ same here...my teacher practically begged me to join last year lol</p>
<p>about the leadership thing..some people in NHS at my school have started their own clubs.....newspaper...I've been the captain of all my soccer teams so i guess that was my leadership...i dunno...it's not that big a deal...at least not to me lol :-D</p>
<p>It's no biggie. My school doesn't even have NHS and plus its such a minor EC that its just an afterthought when you run out of things to put on your application. In my opinion, unless you DO something in NHS, listing it on a app means you're pretty desperate...</p>
<p>Yeah, even if you had got into NHS, it's not that much of a stand-out EC on the application, since most people have it. Your other leadership activities will look better, so I wouldn't go over the top about it.</p>
<p>NHS isn't a big deal. If you check the Chance Me section, you'll find that many people don't even bother to include it. In our school, NHS students are just the schools work dogs.</p>
<p>Work on accumulating leadership/volunteer/job hours, as well as leadership positions in clubs.</p>
<p>I think NHS isn't such a big deal for my school because we have Key Club, where most of the volunteering stuff happens. I have never heard of anyone being rejected from Honors Society, unless they didn't fill out their forms or something else. :0 Weird...</p>
<p>Agreed with AeroEngineer, NHS is just used to compliment the application, I didn't really even bother to put it down.</p>
<p>Wow, my school doesn't even require an application for NHS, and ECs aren't even included as decisions. As long as we take certain classes and make a certain GPA, we're automatically added to the roster. We attend an initiating ceremony and do 8 tutoring sessions a year, and that's basically the extent of NHS at my school. Oh, we also get a pretty blue patch to put on our GREEN Letterman Jacket.</p>
<p>everybody who applies gets in at my school . at least i think they do.
i'm sorry you got rejected, but honestly, its not that important. find an EC that you looove instead.</p>
<p>In our school, there is a limited amount and goes through quite a few processes to be accepted. 1) First teachers vote on if they should be in NHS (there is some rating I think out of 5?), if not they get sent to another pile and in this pile the NHS leaders go through to see if the application is worth it or not. </p>
<p>For me I think I got in because teachers since my application was definitely not as well as some others but I guess some teachers liked me.</p>
<p>But if you are a junior sky, go for it next year. I know quite a few people that got in senior year despite not getting in junior year.</p>