Selection Procedures

NHS is more than an honor roll. Each member must demonstrate not only good grades (scholarship), but also strength in each of the remaining three criteria—leadership, service, and character.

Selection is not an election, nor is membership automatically conveyed simply because a student has achieved a specified level of academic performance (GPA).

The below procedures will help guide the Faculty Council in making their final membership selection of eligible candidates.

Candidates must display evidence of achievement in the four criteria:

1. Scholarship
2. Leadership
3. Service
4. Character

Scholarship:

• Based on GPA, candidates are invited to fill out a Candidate Form.
• Their GPA fulfills the scholarship requirement.

Leadership and Service:

• Through the Candidate Form process, candidates are asked to highlight their leadership ability and their service to their community.
• In order to be offered membership, a candidate must demonstrate a minimum of both of the following:
  • 1 leadership role
  • 1 service activity
• Additional achievements in either of these categories (leadership or service) cannot take the place of these minimum requirements.
• If a candidate fails to complete either the Leadership or the Service section of the Candidate Form, the Faculty Council should look for demonstrations of these criteria in other areas of the Candidate Form.

Character:

• Candidates will list the name of two current or former teachers to use as character witnesses.
• Candidates are encouraged to ask the two teachers before submitting their names. Failure to ask first may negatively affect the candidate’s overall character evaluation score.
• The Faculty Council will contact the two teachers submitted by the candidate and ask that they complete a brief survey/character evaluation on the candidate.
• The information submitted by the evaluators will be numerically tabulated on a scale of 1-5 and then averaged.
• Candidates must have an average score of 4.0 to be offered membership.