<p>My DS is a Senior in College. During his undergrad, he has been "offered" membership in a variety of National and International Honor Societies. Each one has a membership fee in order to "join". </p>
<p>My DS has over a 4.0 as a Mathematics major and a Computer Science minor. He has earned many academic awards and has the most community service hours of any male athlete at his university. He has received outside community service awards as well. He is a Finalist for a very prestigious Graduate Scholarship. </p>
<p>With all that being said, Is it really worth it to pay to join these Honor Societies? Are you paying just to pad your resume? </p>
<p>Does anyone (parent or grad student) care to share their opinion?</p>
<p>It really depends on what they are.
Tau beta pi (engineering) and eta kappa nu (electrical engineering) are well-known and would be known to employers. I don’t know if there is an equivalent of eta kappa nu in computer science. And of course, phi beta kappa is well-known. It is good because you can still list tau beta pi when it would be frowned upon to list your GPA (as it would be several years after graduation.)</p>
<p>There are, of course, other impressive awards for tech majors out there, typically given out from divisions of the government. I doubt you would have to pay for those, though.</p>
<p>I would list the awards here with a short description of what they were and people could comment whether they are worth the price.</p>
<p>EDIT: I see that you are a math major. I am not familiar with national awards for math majors.</p>