The Chapel Hill High School National Honor Society (NHS) recognizes students who excel in scholarship, service, leadership, and character. Membership is one of the highest honors a high school student can achieve and the application process is designed to ensure fairness, transparency, and integrity.
Eligibility:
Students in grades 11–12 with a minimum weighted GPA of 3.8 are invited to apply during the spring semester.
After first-semester grades are stored, eligible juniors (with a minimum weighted GPA of 3.8) will be added to the NHS Application Google Classroom. All application materials, deadlines, and instructions will be posted there.
Students apply for NHS during their junior year, but membership begins senior year. Eligible juniors are invited to apply each spring semester, and those selected by the Faculty Council are inducted that spring as "junior members".
Members of the senior class who were eligible in their junior year but not accepted may qualify to reapply on a case-by-case basis pending an advisor or administrator’s authorization.
Application Components:
To be considered for membership, eligible students must complete and submit all of the following by the published deadline:
CHHS NHS Student Information Form – outlines leadership, service, and involvement.
Two Recommendation Forms – one from a CHHS staff member and one from a community member (someone who does not work at CHHS).
Applicant Essay – written response to the official NHS prompt, submitted through Google Classroom.
AI Attestation - a confirmation they did not use AI to complete this application; using AI makes them automatically ineligible for NHS.
Student can review the prompt here.
Students can review the rubric here.