<p>I've been in National honor society since freshman year (will be senior in 2015) and was wondering how "nice" National Honor Society looks on your transcript. Could it be useful on a resume to join clubs and job/internship opportunities in college? Thanks!</p>
<p>It’s good to have, but a lot of kids are part of NHS, so it doesn’t really stand out</p>
<p>If you’re applying to a top-tier college, it doesn’t matter what clubs you were in or for how long. They’re way more interested in what you did during that time- especially if you managed to do something really clever and innovative that had more of an impact on the community than you would’ve had just working by yourself.</p>
<p>In other words, if you’re just doing things for the resume appeal, it shows and it’s probably not going to help much.</p>
<p>That said, if you’re applying at places that are really trying hard to look good (like the schools that offer National Merit Finalists full rides just so they can say “We have X NMFs! That’s more than any school except MIT and Harvard!”), they seem to value National Honor Society membership in and of itself more than others.</p>
<p>Everywhere else, it’s down to, “So what did you <em>do</em>, exactly? How was it meaningful?”; sometimes it might in and of itself demonstrate some quality about you or maybe fulfill an expectation but I don’t think not having NHS or any other honor society (even Mu Alpha Theta or SNHS) just named on your resume hurts at all. NHS is still worth being a part of for scholarship money, of course.</p>