<p>Hey guys, there's two honor societies at my CC, Alpha Gamma Sigma, and Phi Theta Kappa. Anyone know the difference between the two? I'd just like the extra cosmetic attachment to my UC application. I know they don't really add up to much, but I just need to know which of the two is better to join. Thanks!</p>
<p>If you have Phi Theta Kappa, choose it. My daughter only had Alpha Gamma Sigma option. I just remember reading at the time that PTK has a bunch of scholarship potential and appeared a better one all around. </p>
<p>Yes, do it. It just adds to the app, but you need to have done classes noted as honors, at least that’s how it was at my daughter’s CC. My daughter did about 4-5. Not sure you can be in the club unless you have done classes noted as Honors, but not sure how it works at your school.</p>
<p>Will do, thanks!</p>
<p>At my CC PTK was gpa based, and what classes you took were irrelevant. Clearly each school can do their own thing.</p>
<p>Did you do it, candles? What was your experience?</p>
<p>The AGS guy said all I had to do for them is pay $15 and do 15 hours of volunteer work, between school and community. Seems like an easy thing to do for the addition to my application.</p>
<p>If you have the GPA to get admitted to UCLA, since that’s where you want to go, being a member of either of those honor societies won’t help you much, trust me. Feel free to join them; I did with one of them. I just doubt it’ll help.</p>
<p>I suppose it looks nice since you can do community service and perhaps talk about that in your transcript.</p>
<p>I did join PTK. Honestly I showed up to minimal events and did minimal work for it. Just enough to legitimately put it on my app as volunteer work. I got a nice notation on my transcripts and diploma. Plus once you graduate with your BA, you actually get a higher salary by being part of PTK if you work for the federal government. It automatically puts you in a higher pay grade. </p>
<p>I didn’t find the scholarships too helpful to be honest.</p>
<p>Oh, well that’s interesting. I’m going to do a short period at the public defenders office after law school, so it would be real interesting if that PTK comes back to benefit me there. Interesting.</p>
<p>Cayton, yeah, I was sorta looking to do it for those volunteer hours since they’re needed anyway for me.</p>
<p>Thanks guys.</p>
<p>It just seemed to me there were future good repercussions in PTK that were potentially possible. They have a big network. I wished my daughter had that option. </p>
<p>I’m at SMC PTK member. My experience is very similar to 2016Candles’s experience. Really nice people though :)</p>
<p>AGS is a California Honors Society, while PTK is National/World Wide. Join both and volunteer with the club that does more.</p>
<p>Calbro’s tone implies he knows w-t-f he’s talking about, so i’m going to join both, lol. :)</p>