Do any of you with MTers in college or post-college have experience with the college national honor “societies”? Freshman MT BFA S has now been invited to two of these entities. For one “life-time” fee the student supposedly gets travel and scholarship opportunities, study abroad, leadership skills, internship advantages, community service opportunities, etc. Have any of your kids participated in these? Does anyone have any insight as to whether, or not, these have any value for our Acting/MT/VP BFA kids? Are some legit and some scams? One of the letters came in a “university” stationery envelope, but the letter had the society’s letterhead (named like a Greek fraternity/sorority). The other came in a “Washington D.C…” envelope w/university logo stamped next to return address. Although S has not been invited, I would also be interested in feedback regarding theater/music fraternities. Feel free to PM if you don’t want to post publicly.
Son received the letter too. When we saw the envelope we thought it was about making the Dean’s list 
We tossed the letter. I don’t know anything regarding theater/music fraternities. Son did join a local, not national fraternity, much to our surprise. It has turned out to be a positive experience for him, and there is another BFA member and alums. They are celebrating pi day today, lol.
D got the letter on school stationary too - it went in the recycle bin. I investigated when our S got it a couple of years ago (a computer science major!). Almost everything I read said it was an organization out to make money, and not really anything helpful for the future. I don’t think they’re really scams, but also not anything super selective about them.
Anything that asks for a fee for the honor, we throw away.
What Cailliene said.
Echoing the above. We toss anything with a fee…
Thanks all. That was my gut, too. Just wanted to make sure I was not denying my kid the chance to be Master of the Universe for one small lifetime fee.