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Anonymous wrote:Yes students still put honor society in college applications.

But why? The grades and rigor of the courseload kind of speaks for itself. Any time spent on NHS could have been spent doing a real extracurricular that colleges would care a lot more about.

The secret is that most colleges don’t actually care about extra curriculars. They want a good GPA, good test scores, and community service. That’s good enough. NHS fits the bill.

Anonymous wrote:Yes students still put honor society in college applications.

But why? The grades and rigor of the courseload kind of speaks for itself. Any time spent on NHS could have been spent doing a real extracurricular that colleges would care a lot more about.

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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.

So the SLHS students would not be getting the 1.0 GPA bump so would be harder to get 3.5 or 3.7 at SLHS and easier to get at Langley if taking AP. Makes sense. Thanks.

IB Classes, at leas the HL versions, get a 1 point bump in GPA. I think the SL classes get a .5 bump. Essentially, HL = AP, SL = Honors. The GPA bumps are there. Diploma candidates have to take a certain number of HL classes, I don’t know what that number of classes is.

I am surprised that the GPA for NHS is below a 3.7. A 3.5 should be pretty easy to get at most schools.

Would think that too. Guess anyone not liking the 3.7 at their own school could always sign up for Russian and go to 3.5 Langley. I’m guessing not a lot of colleges would care though like an above poster said.

NHS is fine and for the kids who can’t fill up the other lines on the college app. It’s not an impressive activity because it’s redundant but it’s something for those who don’t have other ECs so don’t knock it.

No, no one cares to look into this. There is no consistency between districts either. Some districts make kids apply and have a rigorous application process. Others have automatic acceptance with a certain GPA.

It’s a service club to keep their GPA up and do community service, which is why it’s redundant. They can still list the community service on their college app if it’s anything impressive and their GPA is in the transcript.

This really is not anything to worry about.