<p>I got invited to join these 2 honor societies (National Society of Collegiate Scholars and Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society), but have no idea whether they are actually a real honor society or just something that some one made up to get money from college students. Anyone ever heard of it? Is it worthed of joining?</p>
<p>bump. good question.</p>
<p>Alpha Lambda Delta appears to be legitimate. It is a member of the same organization as Tau Beta Pi (engineering) and other real honor societies that I am familiar with. See this link:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.achsnatl.org/standards_alert.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.achsnatl.org/standards_alert.asp</a></p>
<p>On the other hand, NSCS appears bogus, as discussed in this link:</p>
<p>The best way to know whether an honorary is legitimate to see if they have a chapter at your school. It should be relatively easy to find a list of honoraries operating at your school.</p>
<p>NSCS is real. The group at my school was VERY active until last year, when the president suddenly quit school to get married and join the military.</p>
<p>I got offered alpha lambda delta, but decided not to do it. I did join my professional honors societies - Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Upsilon Pi Epsilon - since I know the people+professors involved with those at my school and I know they're good for me to join.</p>
<p>I am, apparently, a member of NSCS even though I've never done anything with them or gone to their meetings or whatever. My parents basically decided for me that I should join. It looks like they have weekly meetings on my campus but I am not entirely sure what they do (community service stuff, maybe?). I'm also always getting emails from the main organization about scholarships and summer internships and alternative spring breaks and etc. Too bad they just send out generic emails without bothering to check that, hey, students at this school are still in the middle of spring term in mid-May and so they can't very well be going on this internship, can they?</p>
<p>I actually asked my advisor about them, and he pretty much said that there isn't much use in them unless you plan on being an active member...otherwise, it's just an overdramatized transcript and you are better off holding out for the more prestigious ones that actually look at whether you can hold those good grades beyond your first semester of college, like phi beta kappa</p>