<p>I'm an honor student ranked number 2 in my graduating class with a 4.9 weighted GPA. I'm an AP scholar with honors, an award-winning essayist and musician, and I have over 100 volunteer hours logged. I'm totally NOT saying all that to toot my own horn--I have a serious concern.</p>
<p>I'm also a member of NHS; have been for a semester--but if I have it my way I won't be for very much longer. I've come to the conclusion that NHS is the most hypocritical organization in my school. But that's not really it--I have a serious clash of personalities with my NHS sponsor. I honestly can not stand to be around her, and I'm pretty sure she feels the same about me. She's made it quite clear she doesn't want me in NHS because some other teachers overheard some comments I had to say about her, making my opinion of her equally clear. I'm done with her threatening to put me on probation--I just want to quit NHS entirely and have it done with.</p>
<p>But I want to know...will this make my college and scholarship applications less..appealing? Or does NHS really mean anything at all?</p>
<p>EDIT: Wow, rereading this makes it seem like I'm quitting JUST because of my sponsor. Which is really dumb. That's not it--that was just the last straw. Just to clarify that.</p>
<p>NHS won’t make or break anyone. Trust me. U can do without it w/o any ramifications (albeit some colleges may have extra scholarships for NHS folks).</p>
<p>If you do a search on “NHS” you’ll see that many many of us who were accepted at top schools didn’t need it. It didn’t hurt my multiple Ivy accepts. I eventually matriculated at an HYP college.</p>
<p>Totally agree. I’ll extend it to private schools as well. Major political tool.</p>
<p>T26E4 is entirely correct as well. All the people I know who got into HYP did it without NHS, but data searches would verify the non-preponderance of NHS among that group.</p>
<p>I quit my school’s NHS after one year, because they never did anything. Going to the meetings was a waste of time. So, yes, drop it and replace it with something you enjoy. The absence of any particular EC is not going to hurt you.</p>
<p>Ugh NHS. I’m still in it, but at my school the entire thing is entirely disorganized, and no one cares at all. A lot of people fudge their tutoring requirements and required service points. While these are indeed annoying, I’d rather have requirements than nothing at all. :|</p>
<p>Ugh, it’s just popularity in my school. Although we did put on some really nifty community service events last semester. I can do those without being a member.</p>
<p>But whatever. I really hate all the drama. I think I’m going to quit.</p>
<p>Personally, although I’m not an expert, I wouldn’t worry about NHS. You seem to be a quite qualified student and I’m sure that you would replace NHS with something else noteworthy. </p>
<p>On the same note, I think you should be more concerned about what you enjoy doing, rather than trying to do what “looks good” to admission offices. Any school that would penalize someone for doing what they enjoy rather than what “looks good” is likely not worth going to anyways.</p>