<p>Freshman, female, 4.2 weighted GPA, all honors classes (no APs allowed for freshmen), taking 2 languages (Spanish 3 & Chinese 2)
I got my letter from my homeroom teacher today…the letter said that I need to do more extracurricular activities, and that although my grades are okay, they really don’t look at grades as long as you have 3.5+. Freshmen aren’t allowed to participate in non-athletic activities at our school. I have been dancing for 10+ years. Next year I plan on joining 3 or 4 clubs…
What do I do? I think my chances of getting into uni have officially gone to nil. Do I just try again next year, drop out, or take more drastic measures?</p>
<p>NHS matters for little in college admissions. I got into Notre Dame having never been in my school’s NHS, and there are others here who have gotten into many schools without NHS. Colleges are not impressed by something so simple, and they won’t care that you’re not in it.</p>
<p>Use the time you just saved from it to work on something you really love, to develop your own activities, to join interesting organizations. Meaningless honor societies for mutual self-congratulation won’t make a difference.</p>
<p>Haha good one. </p>
<p>OR</p>
<p>NHS does not matter. You people come here and make me feel like such an underachiever.</p>
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Stupid freshman.</p>
<p>You should probably drop out…</p>
<p>I’ll reaffirm that NHS is useless for getting into a good school. Over a million people hold NHS membership; it isn’t exclusive and admissions officers read so many applications with NHS on them that I’d imagine it’s more of a character check. If you didn’t have ANY EC’s or NHS, then colleges might start to wonder. But in a list of five or six things, this purpose becomes obsolete.</p>
<p>I got into Stanford and others like Cornell and Northwestern without being in national honor society, and I don’t have a laundry list of EC’s or leadership either. So from my experience there is no benefit. After hearing my peers gripe about strict NHS policies, I’ve never wanted to take part in NHS either. Carry on; don’t let the purported importance of NHS keep you down or stop you from pursuing your interests.</p>
<p>Yo responders read the post. She said that she didn’t get into National Junior Honor society not national honor society.</p>
<p>Yo OP its NJHS it doesn’t matter. Apply for NHS next year.</p>
<p>Yo everybody why are there so many freshman on CC? I know that when I was their age everyone was like ■■■■ until junior year.</p>
<p>should probably drop out and work full time at Subway</p>
<p>@almost: Uh… either she mistyped or she’s not in high school, as NJHS is the middle-school level.</p>
<p>Yeah but you aren’t eligible to apply for NHS until you’re a sophomore.</p>
<p>Lol I’m only in NHS for the scholarship.</p>
<p>NHS doesn’t matter in college admissions. Junior high doesn’t matter in college admissions. Put these two together and NJHS simply doesn’t matter when considering college admission.</p>
<p>Cool story brah.</p>
<p>@SeekingUni: for some reason they put freshmen in NJHS at my school, I don’t know why.
@toshimelonhead: I’m not in middle school.
@quomodo: thanks broseph</p>
<p>Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.</p>
<p>It’s fine. Stop worrying about things that don’t matter and do something that does matter.</p>
<p>i mean if not getting into nhs is worth dropping out, then all kids with gpa’s of less than 3.5 should just not even go to school.</p>
<p>NJHS has absolutely no value in the admissions process. NHS has so little value that you couldn’t even see it with a microscope.</p>
<p>It really doesn’t matter for anything, except your pride.</p>