Seventh and eighth-grade students are eligible for membership in the Mother Teresa Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society. Candidates will become eligible for consideration the 1st semester of 7th grade. Candidates must have completed one semester of full-time enrollment to be eligible for consideration, and must have a cumulative scholastic average of 95 beginning with the 6th grade. Candidates shall then be evaluated on the basis of service, leadership, character, and citizenship. The selection of each member to the chapter shall be a majority vote of the faculty council. The National Council and the NASSP shall not review the judgment of the faculty council regarding the selection of individual members to local chapters.