<p>What are the benefits of joining Mortarboard and/or other college honor societies?</p>
<p>Bragging rights. Ha ha.
This is an “in” family joke at our house – H was elected to Mortar Board, whereas I wasn’t, but I was Phi Beta Kappa. And we had a good-natured rivalry over it. So even to this day, if one of us makes a stupid remark, the other usually pipes in, “Well, that’s why you weren’t Mortar Board / PBK.”</p>
<p>To be honest, in-family bragging rights are just about all those things are good for, IMO.</p>
<p>S received a very substantial scholarship from a Mortarboard alumni organization associated with his school. He attended the national conference where he networked with other very successful students from around the country (no cost for a chapter representative). </p>
<p>S has stayed in touch with many of the people that he met at the conference, who are all now in professional schools (medical, law, dental). His school’s chapter did some charity and preprofessional activities, so he felt that it was a worthwhile organization for numerous reasons. </p>
<p>Many of the students in his chapter helped to make their year a success. About half of them just joined to put it on their resume and were never around when the chapter had meetings or needed help for something, which was frustrating to the ones who actually contributed.</p>