Criteria for Membership

The table shown here is an overview of the selection process.  Letters are sent to all students who, after the first semester of their junior year, meet the scholarship criterion of a minimum GPA of 3.8500.  If interested in membership, the student then submits a service resume to be evaluated.  If all the requirements are met, the student is inducted into the National Honor Society in the spring of the junior year, while active membership begins in the fall of the senior year.  Additionally, seniors who are not members of NHS are invited to apply for membership during the fall of their senior year if the GPA is 3.8500 or above.  To maintain membership, the student must meet all the requirements outlined in the NASH NHS by-laws.

Character and Leadership are evaluated on a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being the highest rating).  The faculty of NASH are given a list of candidates and are asked to rate only those students with whom they are familiar enough to give a solid professional judgment.  To aid the faculty in this endeavor, lists of character and leadership traits that are recognized by the National Honor Society in its Official Handbook are attached to the rating form.

The service rating is obtained by analyzing the service resume which the student submits.  Each activity is worth a specific number of points based on an extensive list of activities which have been evaluated over the years by the NHS Faculty Advisory Council.  The members of the Council are shown below.

Although a student may meet the minimum acceptable rating in each category, the overall rating must be equal to or greater than 14.3500 for the student to be accepted into the National Honor Society at NASH.