<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Do you know if Alpha Epsilon Delta, the college honors pre-medical society, is any good? I've been thinking about joining but I've just been wondering abouti ts reputation. I mean, does it look like a "who's Who" sort of "award" that really doesn't mean anything or have much prestige?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Premed clubs are generally worthless.</p>
<p>The only honor society worth anything is Phi Beta Kappa. Even then, it's kinda iffy whether it's worth a EC slot on the AMCAS application.</p>
<p>AED at my school is pretty handy, in that they get the state medical school deans to come in and give talks, lots of doctors, etc. But I don't think you have to be a member to come - basically, I figure it can't hurt to go to the talks, but I wouldn't look at it as something to put on applications.</p>
<p>And yeah, the general advice I've gotten is that PBK is the only honor society worth anything.</p>
<p>AED...depends on what they do. I tend to look at them more as just any other organization, and not necessarily as an "honor". </p>
<p>I disagree with PBK being the only honor society worth anything. It may be the only one that carries weight everywhere in the country, but there are certainly honor societies like Mortar Board or Omicron Delta Kappa, which carry weight regionally. Others like Missouri's QEHB, Nebraska's Innocents Society, Florida's Blue Key, Rutger's Cap and Skull, Iron Arrow at Miami(FL), and the like can mean a lot within the local/state area - at least to people who graduated from those schools and know the significance. But these honor societies tend to take very limited numbers of students from the junior class each year - ie, The Innocents only take 13 members each year.</p>