Once selected, members have the responsibility to continue to demonstrate these qualities. Membership shall be known as active, honorary, and graduate. Active members shall become graduate members at graduation. Graduate members shall have no voice or vote in chapter affairs. Honorary members shall have no voice or vote in chapter affairs.
Candidates become members when inducted at a special ceremony.
Members who are seniors in good standing are eligible to be nominated by their chapters to compete in the National Honor Society Scholarship Program. A National Honor Society member who transfers to another school and brings a letter from the former principal or chapter adviser to the new school adviser shall be accepted automatically as a member in the new school's chapter. Transfer members must meet the new chapter's standards within one semester in order to retain membership. Members who resign or are dismissed are never again eligible for membership or its benefits. Candidates must have been in attendance at the school the equivalent of one semester.