National Honor Society GPA and Grades Variance?

[Anonymous]

Noticed different high schools appear to have different GPA and grade level requirements for national honor society (some are 3.5 like Langley/SouthCounty/Westfields and others are 3.7 like South Lakes—any others that high?). Anyone know why a variance across the county? Maybe these are typos and websites are outdated? Also noticed sophomores (Westfields, South County) can join honor society in some schools, but only juniors and above at some schools can. This also provides more years and leadership opportunities, which could be a disadvantage for college applications or missed learning opportunity. Any insights? Is this something school board is looking at?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Noticed different high schools appear to have different GPA and grade level requirements for national honor society (some are 3.5 like Langley/SouthCounty/Westfields and others are 3.7 like South Lakes—any others that high?). Anyone know why a variance across the county? Maybe these are typos and websites are outdated? Also noticed sophomores (Westfields, South County) can join honor society in some schools, but only juniors and above at some schools can. This also provides more years and leadership opportunities, which could be a disadvantage for college applications or missed learning opportunity. Any insights? Is this something school board is looking at?

Is GPA based on weighted GPA?

[Anonymous]

Great question. They are all weighted that I’m aware of but unsure.

The bigger concern was that schools like South Lakes requires more from its students than a school like Langley. So it’s easier to make NHS at Langley than South Lakes. Some high schools have minimum gpa required as 3.7 and others have a minimum at 3.5. That’s a big difference between having on average A- vs. B+ average.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great question. They are all weighted that I’m aware of but unsure.

The bigger concern was that schools like South Lakes requires more from its students than a school like Langley. So it’s easier to make NHS at Langley than South Lakes. Some high schools have minimum gpa required as 3.7 and others have a minimum at 3.5. That’s a big difference between having on average A- vs. B+ average.

South Lakes is an easier school overall so they should make the requirements harder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great question. They are all weighted that I’m aware of but unsure.

The bigger concern was that schools like South Lakes requires more from its students than a school like Langley. So it’s easier to make NHS at Langley than South Lakes. Some high schools have minimum gpa required as 3.7 and others have a minimum at 3.5. That’s a big difference between having on average A- vs. B+ average.

South Lakes is an easier school overall so they should make the requirements harder.

Would think opposite - if think Langley is better school then there should be more kids getting 3.7 weighted so could do the higher gpa

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great question. They are all weighted that I’m aware of but unsure.

The bigger concern was that schools like South Lakes requires more from its students than a school like Langley. So it’s easier to make NHS at Langley than South Lakes. Some high schools have minimum gpa required as 3.7 and others have a minimum at 3.5. That’s a big difference between having on average A- vs. B+ average.

South Lakes is an easier school overall so they should make the requirements harder.

Would think opposite - if think Langley is better school then there should be more kids getting 3.7 weighted so could do the higher gpa

It’s easier to get As at SLHS - so they make it a little tougher to get into NHS.

It’s harder to get As at Langley, therefore they drop the requirements a little.

How do you not get this?

[Anonymous]

Just anecdotal - I know for NJHS (at Middle School) it is up to the school. At our MS, they raised it to 3.75 GPA vs 3.5 because there were too many eligible kids at the 3.5 level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great question. They are all weighted that I’m aware of but unsure.

The bigger concern was that schools like South Lakes requires more from its students than a school like Langley. So it’s easier to make NHS at Langley than South Lakes. Some high schools have minimum gpa required as 3.7 and others have a minimum at 3.5. That’s a big difference between having on average A- vs. B+ average.

South Lakes is an easier school overall so they should make the requirements harder.

Would think opposite - if think Langley is better school then there should be more kids getting 3.7 weighted so could do the higher gpa

It’s easier to get As at SLHS - so they make it a little tougher to get into NHS.

It’s harder to get As at Langley, therefore they drop the requirements a little.

How do you not get this?

NP - what evidence do you have that it’s harder to get As at Langley? I call BS and I’m not a SLHS parent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great question. They are all weighted that I’m aware of but unsure.

The bigger concern was that schools like South Lakes requires more from its students than a school like Langley. So it’s easier to make NHS at Langley than South Lakes. Some high schools have minimum gpa required as 3.7 and others have a minimum at 3.5. That’s a big difference between having on average A- vs. B+ average.

South Lakes is an easier school overall so they should make the requirements harder.

Would think opposite - if think Langley is better school then there should be more kids getting 3.7 weighted so could do the higher gpa

It’s easier to get As at SLHS - so they make it a little tougher to get into NHS.

It’s harder to get As at Langley, therefore they drop the requirements a little.

How do you not get this?

NP - what evidence do you have that it’s harder to get As at Langley? I call BS and I’m not a SLHS parent.

SLHS is an IB school. Not that many kids do the full IB diploma. They do not have AP classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just anecdotal - I know for NJHS (at Middle School) it is up to the school. At our MS, they raised it to 3.75 GPA vs 3.5 because there were too many eligible kids at the 3.5 level.

Is that calculation weighted or unweighted?

[Anonymous]

If you search this on Google, you will find out that each NHS chapter can set their own requirements. The minimum requirement is a 3.0 average. I know that in the past some schools dropped admissions for sophomores because the harder courses are generally taken after freshman year and it used to be if you did not have the required average they would actually drop you. But these days with retakes and pressure to have every grade be an A almost everybody graduates with a 3.5 or above, so it really makes no difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just anecdotal - I know for NJHS (at Middle School) it is up to the school. At our MS, they raised it to 3.75 GPA vs 3.5 because there were too many eligible kids at the 3.5 level.

Is that calculation weighted or unweighted?

Well, given the fact they are "invited" at the end of 7th grade, I would think there's not much weighting going on....the only weighted grade would be a 7th grader taking Algebra 1 or Geometry, right?

I've been told you can have one B, whatever that means.

[Anonymous]

Do people still join NHS? It’s not impressive and you definitely don’t need it for college admissions.

[Anonymous]

SOO sick and tired of all the people that think everything in FcPS needs to be in lock step school to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just anecdotal - I know for NJHS (at Middle School) it is up to the school. At our MS, they raised it to 3.75 GPA vs 3.5 because there were too many eligible kids at the 3.5 level.

Is that calculation weighted or unweighted?

Well, given the fact they are "invited" at the end of 7th grade, I would think there's not much weighting going on....the only weighted grade would be a 7th grader taking Algebra 1 or Geometry, right?

I've been told you can have one B, whatever that means.

Not invited until 8th at our FCPS middle school. Inducted in May, right before the end of the year. Doesn't make sense.