<p>is it worth it to mention that you are part of who's who among american high school scholars?</p>
<p>also, if you were nominated for things like Leadership Conferences or National Society of High School Scholars, should you include it? I did not join or go to any of them because of money issues, but is it good to mention them? THANKS SO MUCH!</p>
<p>No .</p>
<p>I got a letter the other day telling me I was nominated for who's who. All I need to do was send some money to buy the book...</p>
<p>Look at my user name. I was a pretty mediocre high school student and that was over 30 years ago!</p>
<p>No. (10 char)</p>
<p>They just want your money...</p>
<p>i know, but is it still good to show you were nominated because uwere nominated for being an acheiver</p>
<p>I'm a member, but I would never pay for the book.</p>
<p>man, all you need to be nominated is like a 3.5 gpa. You might as well just put down that you graduated junior high school.</p>
<p>"but is it still good to show you were nominated because uwere nominated for being an acheiver"</p>
<p>Colleges aren't going to care...</p>
<p>those programs are all stupid and just looking for money</p>
<p>So if these people are looking for money why do they offer cash grants up to $1000 and 1 $10,000 dollar grant? Answer that.
This is definitely worth mentioning, and if you aren’t smart enough to know that, then you are definitely not smart enough nor worthy of being a scholar</p>
<p>If you step back from your judgmentalism (and also note that this thread was started three years ago – people are probably college juniors now), you might think that a few token awards out of the millions of revenue keeps up a veneer of legitimacy and states’ attorneys general off of their back.</p>
<p>You’re rather mis-informed as to the nature of this organization, its puprose (profit), its percentage of “awards” relative to intake, and its utter and complete uselessness as a point of “recognition”. They PURCHASE names of the top 15% of every high school’s junior class from your school district. This means the country’s top schools to the totally desolate pit schools too.</p>
<p>That’s how prestigious the selection process is.</p>
<p>No matter what school you come from rich or poor, it’s the teachers who recognize potential in students, students who are dedicated towards helping and improving society today. That is an honor worth receiving and being noted for</p>
<p>^I agree that it’s an honor to be noted among your peers – top prep school or run down urban school. Absolutely, each person in the top group of their class should be rightly proud.</p>
<p>However, that doesn’t take away from the fact that this Who’s Who thing is purely a money making venture. You can still list that you were awarded placement in the book without shelling $60 for it right? </p>
<p>But due to the extreme inclusive nature of this “award”, it does nothing to enhance the application of a student applying to selective colleges. You might as well say you were on the Honor Roll for four years (again, a nice achievement but in the context of top school admissions, a foregone conclusion)</p>
<p>Of course you don’t have to buy anything the yearbook, or anything else. They are just nice reminders of what you have accomplished.
And as for the colleges I honestly can’t tell you what they look for or if this will help, because I haven’t applied for college with this on my resume yet.</p>