College student resumes and fellowship applications: how many/which honors to list?

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<p>I realize that this is a good problem to have, but my daughter has been invited to join a number of honor societies at her college, and she has also received several scholarships and department awards. She is working on her resume to submit for internships for the fall and also for a national fellowship for 2014-15 (for after she graduates). I am wondering, which of the honors should she include, and at what point (if any) does too many become distracting? </p>

<p>I know for sure she should include Phi Beta Kappa. But she also has joined the Greek-letter honor societies for her major and for both of her two minors. Include those? What about the department award for "best third-year Spanish student"? What about the school's study-abroad scholarship?</p>

<p>I realize there is probably no definite right or wrong to this - one person who reads her fellowship application might want to see all six lines for "honors" flled in, while another might look at the specifics and think this is mostly fluff.</p>

<p>So which way would you wise CC parents advise erring - listing too few or too many "honors"?</p>

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<p>If you are filling out lines in an application I don’t think there’s a downside to putting in everything that fits. If there aren’t enough lines you leave out the things that seem less important or combine them on one line (like the major/minor honor societies). If it’s a resume I was always taught to fit it on one page, though I’ve seen contrary advise on that here on CC in the past.</p>