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Get out. Now. Run.
Trust me, I was in NJHS and NHS, and they were some of the biggest wastes of time that I've ever been a part of, NHS in particular. The entire philosophy behind the club was asinine. It's like... you're already an honor student, spending a lot of your time studying and working, unlike the majority of American students, so they give you community service. Like prison. The community service usually takes away from your studies, which are supposedly the focus of the club in the first place.
If you ask me, they should have given the failing students community service. That way, they could have actually contributed to society.
Maybe it was just how my chapter functioned (poorly) combined with the fact that I was raised in an area with some of the poorest excuses for human existence I could ever imagine (the South), but I found the entire thing to be a huge drain on my time. I dropped out after my first (or second... can't recall) year, put it "NHS" on my resume. Never looked back.
OK, so maybe don't drop out right away. But do eventually. If you want. You can still put it on your resume and it will still help you get into college.
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I'm currently in the exact same club and of the exact same opinion. It's such BS, but hey, it's a well-known extracuricular activity to put on college applications. Woop.
Anyway, I also agree with the point of giving community service opportunities to the non-honor students so that they could have some proof of caring about something although they fail to achieve the highest grades.
Besides NHS, which requires a 3.5 or higher GPA, I'm also in Key Club. President actually. No academic requirements for it, but arg, 40 hours total of hours I have to do for the two clubs combined.