Local (Affiliate) Membership

To Become a Member

We accept new members into AED at the beginning of the fall & spring semesters! All new members must complete one full pledge year (2 semesters). You may join in any year of your schooling, and we'd love to have you! Certain requirements must be met during the pledge year.

To join, just email aed@colorado.edu or attend our recruitment meetings (see calendar).

Pledges vs. Actives vs. National Members

Pledges are new to AED. They must complete two semesters in our club and all of our requirements to be promoted to "active" status. Actives are welcome to apply to become national members (more information under the "National Membership" tab).

Pledge Requirements

  • Socials, Fundraisers & Philanthropy: 1 per month
  • Dues: $75/Semester
  • Meeting attendance is mandatory for ALL chapter meetings
  • Health Fair: Mandatory (during spring semester)
  • Volunteer: 20 hours per semester
  • 1 Shadowing Experience and a written reflection paper

Active Requirements 

  • Socials, Fundraisers & Philanthropy: 1 per month
  • Dues: $60/Semester
  • Meeting attendance is mandatory for ALL chapter meetings
  • Health Fair: Mandatory (during spring semester)
  • Volunteer: 15 hours per semester

Honors

This system allows members of AED to graduate from the University of Colorado at Boulder with AED honors recognition. This is not the same as the honors program through the College of Arts and Sciences (or whichever school you are in), through which you have the opportunity to graduate cum laude, summa cum laude, or magna cum laude. That is only achieved through a combination of writing a thesis and GPA. Through AED, you have the opportunity to wear an honor cord at graduation and to be a part of an important national honor society. Below is a list of ways that you can accumulate points in order to achieve this recognition. You must accumulate 1,000 points to graduate with honors. Honor cords will be presented to those members who are able to achieve this at the pledge initiation banquet for the year that they reach 1,000 points. Depending on your membership status, you may or may not be eligible to receive points in all of these areas. Please note: points will be docked (equal to the amount you would have earned) if you commit to an activity and fail to complete it! Other activities can be rewarded with the discretion of the secretary.

AED Honors Points


Benefits of Membership

  • Public recognition of outstanding premedical scholarship
  • Opportunity to be part of a national group of students interested in professional health as a career
  • Opportunity to participate in activities that promote interest in professional health
  • Interactions with other chapters throughout the US
  • Opportunity to establish and pursue contacts with health professionals
  • Pleasure and satisfaction of lifelong membership in an active organization devoted to the education of pre-professional health students
  • Potentially graduate with honors
  • Meet peers who are striving towards the same goals as you

Affiliate vs. National Membership

  • National membership is extra. It has more requirements, an additional fee, and more benefits.
  • Affiliate members are only associated with AED CU Alpha Chapter at CU Boulder.
  • National Members are associated with the national AED organization.
  • See the "National Membership" page for more information.