Talk:Honor society

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I have a possible inconsistency alert- in this article, an honor society is defined as collegiate, but at least one of the list items (Mu Alpha Theta) is actually a high school honor society (I'm in it, and I'm in high school). Change the definition, or scrap Mu Alpha Theta? Philthecow 00:13, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)

• Change the definition (most definitely) and catagorize by level. Thanks for the notice. --BD2412 04:03, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Both you and the article are correct. Mu Alpha Theta recognizes high school and two-year college students, so it should be listed with each level. Beginning 03:17, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reason

What are the reasons for honor societies to exist? --Abdull 16:17, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Furthermore, why the "2 or 3 greek letters" naming convention? Communisthamster 17:43, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

After some reading around, I think that honour societies originally often had mottoes in Greek, and the names of the society would be the first initials of the motto. The Wednesday Island 16:02, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Professional fraternity and honor society

Can anyone fine information outside of wikipedia about how to distinguish between a professional fraternity and an honor society? As far as I can find, it's totally a matter of preference in teh organization, and even then some chapters will use a name of their own designation; eg. a friend of mine refers to her "fraternity" AED, even though they cite themselves as an honor society. —ScouterSig 22:54, 2 June 2007 (UTC)