one point away from NHRP....

fineartsmajormom
Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:20:58 +0000

NHRP allows you to select a few schools to send a special notification from the college board telling them that you are a scholar and you are interested in their school. It is a little like an special heads up that you are seriously interested in their school. I think this was one of the benefits of my son’s status. He used it for VCU-honors and CMU and both accepted him but probably more because of his art portfolio/stats than because of his NHS designation or for his ethnicity. There were a couple of schools that had special scholarships for NHS but most offered scholarships for high achieving minority students through a competitive application process. Thus, the NHS designation was a small bump (like any other recognized achievement) but the portfolio, high SAT scores, good grades were the main factors for admission and scholarships at very competitive schools, apparently, with minority status perhaps being a factor in some of the larger, mid-level schools.