Do colleges care about NHS?
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Anonymous
| I have a daughter going into HS, and we are trying to determine whether NHS is worth it for her to join. The requirements for NHS are having a GPA above a 3.5 and performing 20 volunteer hours a year. I really don't see the point of joining. Colleges will obviously see what her GPA is, and she plans on joining a service club anyways. So what benefit is there to be had for joining NHS? |
Anonymous
| Its a shortcut to showing on the app that you did the service and had the grades. |
Anonymous
| Colleges do care IMO. Another stat to be checked. |
Anonymous
| Are you asking about NJHs? Because NHS invitations don’t come out until junior year at which point your daughter will have a lot more info to make a decision. |
Anonymous
| What do you mean “we” are trying to decide? This should be left entirely up to your daughter and you need to stay out of it. |
Anonymous
Oh please go away. Let the mom help her kid. You anti-helicopter parents are a$$holes. |
Anonymous
| Let her join. It is one more EC to list. My son joined and had a great experience with various service opportunities. |
Anonymous
| They also get a nice cord to wear at graduation (at least at our high school). It’s a nice recognition of hard work. No reason not to do it. |
Anonymous
Yes, technically so. Whatever the honor society that Freshmen and Sophomores join. |
Anonymous
My daughter doesn't know enough about it, and quite frankly really doesn't care enough about it to have much of an opinion. If I think it's a good idea she's fine with doing it. If I think it's a waste of time, she's not going to lose any sleep over it. And before anyone gets hysterical, she has plenty of hobbies and activities that she absolutely does care about and has her own opinions about. But this isn't one of them. |
Anonymous
+ a million |
Anonymous
Do they actually arrange service opportunities for the kids? I thought the kids had to do it themselves and just reported their hours to NHS. |
Anonymous
| Yes, it is worth checking the box. You can also look at it as an affiliation with other bright kids in her circles. You want your HS kid to associate with and hang around other bright motivated kids. |
Anonymous
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If your school doesn’t rank, it helps signal that your are at least in the upper percent of class. In this era of everyone doing some service for high school graduation 20 hours per year isn’t much.
Join if you like the group activities and have time. Let the kid decide. My kid couldn’t be bothered to complete the application paperwork (her) but it didn’t hold him back for college admissions. |
Anonymous
| Grrr not her ^^ |