National Honor Society (NHS) in High School - Did you get into it back in HS? If not, why?

Carnivore 69 wrote:

I got in (2nd in class out of 320), 4.24, 1390.

More proof that grades and SAT scores poorly correlate with one's actual intelligence. Either that or right wing ideology can make ANYone stupid, even someone who started off fairly smart.

(weren't you, like, REALLY sure Romney was gonna win in a landslide? And haven't you given incredibly bad stock market advice on here? or am i confusing you with another dense conservative)

National Honor Society is a waste of time.

Graduated in 1997. 1200 SAT, 3.7 GPA, 8/68 in my class.

PR's 54.1 400m, 2:02 800m, 4:40 1600m, 9:55 3200m, 16:03 5K, 34:25 10k. Walk on at Tennessee.

I was pushed into joining NHS by my parents and coaches. It wasnt my thing. At the time I didnt dress up for social things and I definitely wasnt into bake sales or other crap that they did.

I grew up on a dairy farm. I ran in the morning around 6am. Then went to school and practice. Usually got home around 5:30pm to eat dinner and do farm work. Maybe 30 minutes to do homework. In bed hopefully by 9:30pm. Saturdays were meets. Sunday was long run.

I got into a huge argument with the NHS leader one day at school. I hadnt done anything for my senior project. She picks a fight with me right before a pep rally for all fall sports on a Friday afternoon. Me and her are face to face yelling at each other while We Will Rock You plays over the school PA system. She was out of her mind and the music just made it surreal. The next Monday I scribbled a resignation note and threw it on her desk. She copied it and sent it home to my parents. I caught hell for it but I didnt care for it nor did I even have time to put in any effort.

1580 SAT, top 10% of my class, but I couldn't do NHS due to a suspension. We got in a rock fight with a rival team while running, one of them got hurt, and they called the school on us. Bunch of punks.

Not doing NHS didn't have any affect on my life so far as I'm aware.

Yup, I was in it...Totally forgot that it existed until I saw this thread

At first I thought that was the big scam to sucker the parents into buying the overpriced "book" that lists their offspring with all the other schmucks in the country that made it into this elitist society.

I was a two year member and don't remember our society actually doing anything at all.

After a little research I have found it was the "who's who among american high school students" that was the scam. Neither organization meant anything to me.

At my school, NHS is an absolute joke. Grades are so inflated these days that anyone with half a brain can get in. No one takes it seriously and the teacher who oversees our group is an ignorant fool.

Last year, I got fed up with how much it sucked and ran for president of our branch. I won on the platform that I'd make it more flexible and convenient for everyone. If I hadn't done this, our members would have continued skipping mandatory events and nothing would have changed.

This is the ONLY way our NHS can work. The spoiled student-athletes at my school are perfectly content to pick and choose what they attend and don't attend - so unless I work around them, we don't get anything done. Honestly, it's pathetic and I feel like I'm babysitting a group of kids my own age. All they care about is listing NHS on their college app's despite putting no effort into it whatsoever.

Ha, this was a really awesome post.

Sorry to break it to you 'dude', but a 4.3 unweighted is not possible. An unwieghted GPA is based on a 4.0 scale. In other words, YOU SUCK BRO.

NhS is an elitist bullshit group anyway

HS: I'm a high school student. GPA is a 3.89, and I take honors and AP classes. Upper middle class suburban area public school, my school district is ranked 3rd in the state. I have yet to take the SAT, but scored in the top 10% on PSAT. I don't know my class rank, and though I am consistently honor roll and high honor roll, there a lot of highly successful kids in my school. I am a competitive horseback rider and have a TON of community service hours.

Last year when I applied to NHS I was rejected for a lack of leadership positions. I work two jobs, have multiple hours of homework per night, and train 4 to 5 days per week (as much as I can). How is anyone supposed to have 11 or more leadership positions? Sorry I was trying not to fail school and actually hold a couple jobs and a competitive sport without wanting to jump off a cliff. Not trying to be elitist, but I know several people who got in that really don't work that hard.

Focus on your SAT and essays...colleges do not care about NHS anymore.

I did not make NHS my junior year; when they asked me to join in my senior year, I turned them down.

I attended ivy league schools for both undergrad and grad.

Just sayin'.

I didn't apply. It wasn't my type of thing for the reasons everyone else stated. I didn't care nor do I care now and it didn't have any impact on my life. I earned an MBA from a top-15 b-school before the age of 23.

I don't understand how National Honor Society is a waste of time. Some pretty basic criteria...3.5 GPA or higher, recommendations from 2 adults, very minimal volunteer hours and perhaps a VERY occasional meeting. Big deal. And yes, it's not as great a thing as getting good SAT scores and taking honors and AP classes and getting a great GPA, but still, it's just another thing to add to the college application resume.

Not everyone qualifies for NHS, and so if you do, why say no to it? VERY small bit of your time if you've met the criteria for it.

I did it in hs. It was pretty lame, but it looks good to colleges. Unless you are assured of an athletic scholarship, I'd reccomend having it on your activities.

I got very good grades in grade school and the main benefit of doing it was getting beaten up from time to time. It made for a kind of miserable childhood. By high school I wanted no part of anything that would have made me stand out academically so I made sure my grades were good enough to get into a college but not anything that would stand out. I'm sure I would have avoided NHS if the opportunity to join came along.

This was BITD--Nixon administration--but NHS was a big deal at that time. No application was involved (none for Presidential Scholars--a considerable tougher thing to get--back then either), and no big service requirement or whatever; if you were "good," you got tapped.

I got in as a soph, then moved to a school that didn't tap its own kids until their junior year, so I was pretty much a dead cert to be elected president of the school's chapter as a senior. Came close to resigning the whole thing before I graduated--I didn't care for NHS's ideals--but was too chicken. My folks would have broken my arm if I'd done it.

The #2 in my mom's HS class didn't make NHS because he cut a half-day of school.

I had completely forgotten about NHS. I was a tapee as well, right at the 10% mark for grades and probably for SAT score, a few AP classes, no real community service, captain of XC/Track. Evidently, some geniuses missed out. Perhaps it's because I basically never got in trouble and was always deferential to teachers and administrators.

I was brought into the auditorium and had to hold a candle on stage while some guy in a robe who looked like Dumbledore gave some speech about something. That's honestly the only thing I can remember about it. That stupid candle. I highly doubt it matters. Don't worry if you missed out.

Ho Hum wrote:

We got in a rock fight with a rival team while running,

Um, what?