<p>Hey, I was just wondering if anybody else's NHS is hard to get into. </p>
<p>For my school's NHS, around 100 (of a class of 310) students are invited to apply (those with gpa >3.5), and only 30ish are chosen...based on academics, leadership, and service. Those with top gpas (ie. valedictorian) don't have it easier...in fact, both this year and last year, the valedictorian was not selected for NHS.</p>
<p>I was wondering if this is the selectivity of most schools' NHS.</p>
<p>My school gives number grades. You have to have a 93 average to be invited to apply.</p>
<p>My school's NHS is pretty hard to get into but only because of the competitive students applying.</p>
<p>Mine is easy, 3.3 req, but I'm not doing it cause they gave us the application a week before it was due and it was the week of IB testing</p>
<p>My school's NHS admissions are pretty easy in that they take almost everyone that is invited to apply. I think the GPA requirement is 3.5, though I'm not positive. They have us fill out applications similar to college applications (though easier), including an essay about something the NHS could do for the community. The only people they reject are the ones who are really lacking in accomplishments, or who turn their applications in late. Recently, my school has accepted around 15 each year per class of about 50.</p>
<p>NHS really doesn't matter in terms of college. It just looks like an application filler...
My school doesn't even have it.</p>
<p>About 100 get in from a class of about 600... It's based on weighted GPAs and they don't release those, and I forget the cut-off. It's not very selective at all- if you're invited, you're basically in unless you do NOTHING outside of school.</p>
<p>ours is unselective and LAME.
there hasn't been a SINGLE MEETING, there's no induction ceremony, and all the events have fallen through last minute.
thank the heavens i decided against ever joining.</p>
<p>It used to be selective at my school, but now anybody who applies is accepted.</p>
<p>ours is selective 3.8 to get in, but that's not the problem. the problem is STAYING in. they'll kick you out for the stupidest reasons. Missing 1 meeting or volunteer service or something. NHS is a joke.</p>
<p>My school doesn't have NHS</p>
<p>Lol..not true altindiegirl - I got rejected :(</p>
<p>My school's NHS is so chill. We have lots of fun, and get a lot done, exactly what i thought NHS should be. </p>
<p>Our selectivity is almost nonexistent. Anyone who applies is admitted.</p>
<p>I am the president, and i think this way is better, because it doesn't create the elitist attitude that many other NHS's might have.</p>
<p>I don't get the whole selectivity of the club. Kind-of ridiculous. At my school there's a minimum GPA requirement of 3.5. Okay, so last year and many years before, everyone who applied got in (just had to write an essay). This year though, our new nhs advisor decided to be a biotch and apparently, not only do you have to write an essay, you have to get a teacher recommendation, and list down every single activity that you've done in high school. </p>
<p>Then she has the nerve to turn people down (at least 1/3rd of the people who applied were rejected) "because they don't have enough prior community service." The whole point of NHS is essentially, community service. If they don't have any prior service, thats why they are joining NHS in the first place!! Whatever. I'm over this club. Sry, just a mini rant</p>
<p>3.5 to get in....wack</p>
<p>Our school we need a 3.75 uw or 4.00 weighted to get in. Its not selective at all.</p>
<p>All you need at our school is about 3.5 GPA and 15 hours of volunteer work. If you meet the criteria, you're in. All there is is a banquet at the end of the year, it's just like an award.</p>
<p>oh yeah at our school we need 8 hrs of cumminty service and 2 teacher recs.
But if anyone meets these criteria they are in. BTW our school has usually over 70 kids in each class at the end on snr. with 4.0 +w gpa's. lol.</p>
<p>Woah, absolutely not! My friend didn't even write her essay and she got in. Basically, everyone that applied got in. Technically, you're supposed to have a 3.5 GPA or above, so I was surprised that my friend with a 3.0 GPA (who wasn't invited, btw) applied and got in. My school's NHS is nowhere near selective. I think it really depends on who the sponsors are.</p>
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<p>That's the basic truth right there.</p>