In my school at least, the majority of the people in NHS aren't in honors or AP courses. Since this is generally a method of seeing if someone is "smart", we can conclude that the majority of NHS people aren't "smart" just because they're in it.

Wow, NHS in california seems a lot different than in other states...or maybe at least at my school. I didn't think it was too bad but people think its really hard to get into it. We go by a point system and you have to get 48 points. You have to have at least a 3.67 gpa and can't have suspensions or anything like that (that's an automatic 24 points). Then you get 4 points for each full year you exemplify leadership (like club president) or done community service and they can't overlap. You can also get 1 point per big award you receive. Once you're inducted in November, you have to do 20 hours of community service a year, 10 of which must be tutoring at the boys and girls club next to our school. Oh yeah, if you miss 3 of the montly meetings you automatically get kicked out too.

I'm in it....
 

yeah, i think it means something, but we don't really do anything, so it's only purpose is your resume, but even so, some people who aren't in it are just as good as people who are, cause it's notlike you have to do anything special... at least around here. 3.2 gpa and some extracurricular activities which is about 50% of the school population, and they basically seem to pick at random, except for the especially qualified few (like us Robot people) :~þ

does your school really recognize robotics for things?? at our school we get less recognition than other people, if any. i heard all the school elections speeches for pres and everything yesterday, and not one person mentioned robotics at all, they all talked about how important sports are...grr

I'm trying out for graduation speaker and i mentioned robotics. lets just hope they pick me

Well, at my school you must have at least a 4.4 gpa throughout all 3 years of high school...freshman to 3rd quarter of junior year.

It's really cool because they grade you on many differnet things including activities, character, leadership qualities and a few others.

At my school our robotics thing is actually a 2 year program called Electro-Mechanical Tech Prep. It's an amazing course where you learn SO SO SO much information as well as...build a robot! :D

NHS is such a joke, i refused to join when i could have, no one cares after HS anyway and since some schools let everyone in it dosnt mean a thing really