Hello!
Recently, I’ve been looking into starting a National Honors Society chapter at my rural HS, but I have no clue where to begin. Sure, the NHS website does have a lot of information that I’ve read over a few hundred times (lol), but It’s good & more straightforward to hear things coming from you guys. Is starting an NHS chapter worth it? Is it hard creating a chapter?
I think that is something that your school would have to do.
https://www.nhs.us/advisers/start-a-chapter/
You could talk to your principal about it…and offer to raise money for the fee.
Thank you!
any additional input?
Have you talked to your principal or other teacher?
Not a tip into college. In general, NHS standards vary so much by high schools. Kids do service, but its often random and just an hour here or there. Maybe you just go ahead and find some challenging, responsible community service on your own, commit to that, make a difference. Find a way to work with local needs, not just count hours.
NHS can be a fun academic group. Wearing the gold NHS stole at graduation, getting recognized at a induction etc are fun. However if your reason for starting one has anything to do with looking good for colleges it really doesn’t help with that. Colleges can see by your grades how you do and don’t need NHS to tell them that.
NHS can require a specific gpa or higher (you can achieve that without being in NHS), may require school based service (my high school requires some tutoring hours - you can be a tutor without being in NHS), may require some fundraising, may require community service (again you can do community service even without it being required).
Basically help start NHS if it sounds like fun but don’t do it thinking colleges will care.
NHS is great as a way for schools to honor kids who have worked hard, gotten good grades and done service.
It is wonderful for parents to see their kids being honored.
But colleges care about the good grades, the good character and the good service whether or not it has the official “NHS” stamp on it.