About hclubs

hclubs is a student-built guide to 675 Harvard clubs: what each one does, how to join, and when. The directory shows the 540 that have more than a name. Everything comes from public pages (club websites, Harvard pages, student newspapers) and from students' suggestions, which a person checks first.

It's independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by Harvard. Being listed doesn't mean a club is officially recognized.

Something wrong or missing? Send feedback, or email hclubsapp@gmail.com for corrections and removal requests.

How it works

• Sources. Harvard pages, clubs' own sites and recruiting pages, student newspapers, and reviewed student suggestions. A club's site or Instagram counts as official only once a Harvard page or another trusted page links it under the club's name.
• Nothing is guessed. If no source states something (time commitment, size, dues), we leave it out. Each club page lists its sources and when we last saw them.
• When sources disagree, the more official source wins, and for things that change, the more recent one. Each club page's Sources section lists what the sources say.
• Joining. “Open membership” means a source says anyone can join and none names an application, comp, audition or tryout for general members; a selective board doesn't count. A club that says nothing is never counted as a “no” in filters. A comp (short for competition) is a stretch of doing the club's work, such as writing, coding or case practice, before joining; it can last a few weeks or a whole semester. Whether anyone is cut varies by club, and some keep everyone who finishes (“no cuts”). A punch is how final clubs and social groups choose members: invitations after a series of events. An audition is how performing groups choose members: you perform. A tryout is how teams choose members: you play or practice. Open membership has none of these.
• Deadlines belong to a semester. Whether a round is open is worked out from its dates on the day you look; “usually recruits in the fall” is a past pattern, not a promise.
• AI helps read clubs' pages, but a fact is kept only when its exact words (numbers and dates included) are on the page. It also writes one-line summaries from a club's own text.
• No ratings. We never estimate how hard a club is to get into. An acceptance rate appears only when a club published both how many applied and how many got in.

How our crawler works (and how a site can opt out).