Selection Process

Selection Timeline for 2021-2022 Members


May 3, 2021 - NJHS Candidates are notified of eligibility via WCPSS student email. Candidates are 7th grade students who have maintained a 3.75 GPA for the first 3 quarter of 7th grade.


May 21, 2021 - Candidate Information Forms are due for students who wish to be considered for membership.


May 21, 2021 - May 28, 2021 The Faculty Council will remotely meet to discuss disciplinary records, faculty recommendations, candidate forms, and selection.


May 31, 2021 - The NJHS Advisers will notify candidates of selection or nonselection. Members will pay one-time dues of no more than $15.


June 8, 2021 - A virtual induction ceremony will be held in the evening.


September 2021 - The first NJHS meeting will be held.

The selection process for the National Junior Honor Society at Oberlin is based upon five ideals: leadership, service, citizenship, character, and scholarship

A member of NJHS pledges to adopt higher ethical and behavioral standards than what is normally expected of middle school students. Membership is exclusively limited to eighth grade students. Seventh grade students, however, should be keenly aware of the importance of the ideals upheld by NJHS, and they should strive to attain and maintain those ideals throughout the school year.

At the end of their seventh grade year, students can become candidates to join the Oberlin National Junior Honor Society. The criteria used to determine a student’s eligibility is as follows:


Scholarship

To be eligible for membership the candidate must be enrolled in seventh grade for at least three quarters.

To first be considered for membership, the candidate must have, for scholarship, a cumulative scholastic grade point average of at least a 3.75 and their behavior in good standing. The GPA is calculated using only scores from 7th grades using the following scale:

A: 90-100 = 4.0

B: 80-89 = 3.0

C: 70-79 = 2.0

D: 60-69 = 1.0

F: < 59 = 0.0


Leadership

  • Able to delegate responsibilities

  • Exemplifies a positive attitude

  • Inspires positive behavior in others

  • Demonstrates leadership in the classroom and in school activities

  • Thoroughly dependable in any given responsibility


Service

  • Willing to uphold scholarship and maintain a loyalty to school

  • Works well with others

  • Renders any requested service to school with enthusiasm and cheerfulness

  • Does committee/group work without complaining

  • Needs at least 10 hours community service within the first three quarters of 7th grade year


Citizenship

  • Contributes ideas which improve school life

  • Shows courtesy by assisting teachers, staff, visitors, and fellow students

  • Attends school extra-curricular activities

  • Demonstrates a willingness and eagerness to render service to the community through school projects


Character

  • Takes criticism willingly and accepts recommendations with graciousness

  • Exemplifies a desirable, pleasant personality at all times

  • Complies with school rules and regulations

  • Demonstrates the highest standard of honesty and reliability

  • Exemplifies above-reproach behavior by avoiding dishonesty, cheating, breaking rules, rudeness, disruptiveness, profiting from the mistakes of others.


Once the selections have been made, the NJHS advisers will contact students.

An induction ceremony will be held. Parents and friends are invited to attend the ceremony in addition to the seventh grade students.

It is our hope that each of you in seventh grade will strive to become a member of the Oberlin National Junior Honor Society by following the ideals listed above.