<p>i just got a letter in my mail saying that i have been nominated for membership in The National Society of High School Scholars.
does anybody know about this organization?</p>
<p>don't do it. i got one too they just want your money.</p>
<p>organizations that attempt to recognize particularly good students across the country should be paying YOU money...</p>
<p>...thank you....</p>
<p>The other two are: Who's Who in American High Schools and the National Honor Roll. They either try to sell you something or make money off of selling mailing lists to advertisers. It looks naive to put any of these on an application.</p>
<p>i should have known it earlier because i put Who is Who in all of my applicaitons. oh, well</p>
<p>There was a thread on this in the High School Life: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=142511%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=142511</a>
Might help to clarify what it is and stuff.</p>
<p>I think all of us have agreed that it was a scam though.</p>
<p>no one cares what YOU have agreed on. You're not the admissions comittee; they're the important ones.</p>
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i should have known it earlier because i put Who is Who in all of my applicaitons. oh, well
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<p>I wouldn't worry about it, a top student in my HS put it on her app and I don't think it negatively affected her (then again I wasn't the Adcom reading her app)</p>
<p>I got "The National Society of High School Scholars" in the mail today. It says, " It is that commitment that paves the way for membership in the Society and the continuation of your education at one of the best universities in the nation." ----One of the best universities? What is this supposed to mean? How did I get nominated? By who?</p>
<p>DS got that postacrd today, too. Love the signature from "Claes Nobel, Nobel Prize Family"</p>
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How did I get nominated? By who?
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They just use mailing lists, possibly from what you filled out on the PSAT or somewhere else. They are not trying to identify top people, just people.</p>
<p>Do you think colleges send them the info?</p>
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Do you think colleges send them the info?
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Most of the time, juniors seem to get the "nominations" (IMO), and so the colleges don't have the info yet. Also, I don't think colleges would get involved in it.</p>
<p>its a scam.</p>
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I didn't say that I thought it was a scam. I only took the general opinion in that thread. Either way, it doesn't hurt to put it on the application.</p>
<p>I would not say that it would really hurt you to put in the app, but it would be better not to.</p>
<p>I don't know why there are so many troubling posts already, especially in that link to the high school life one, of people who actually paid them (and even more troubling are people who are supporting such scams by attacking individuals who actually trying to spread the truth about these scams). There are no arguments here- this thing is a scam, period. Putting this one on your application is worse than putting down Who's who and that national honor roll, because this shows that you were actually naive enough to PAY this mailing list scam for wooing you over with drivel and nonsense. There's nothing prestigious about this, they just purchase mailing lists from whoever and wherever they can get and send out this trash to absolutely everyone they can reach. Every year this topic comes up and it's sad to see, because it just means that they have received more than enough funds to continue purchasing mailing lists and sending out letters.</p>
<p>When adcoms see it, they will just roll their eyes a little, provided they have enough strength left at that point to do so. It certainly won't help you, but if you've already done it, don't worry. Nobody is going to be denied over it.</p>
<p>whoa... I cant believe that this happens
Thats so evil, total rubbish sending advertisements on such a sensitive topic.</p>
<p>Is there a pattern to who gets it?</p>
<p>yeah, the pattern is, a high school student who is alive and breathing</p>