How much does Eagle Scouts help in college application?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eagle Scout is not a great extracurricular. It’s an assortment of achievements of dubious value and impact. They are not difficult, for the athletic ones, the level of physical preparedness is average so in that sense is less demanding than a sport. Many are just reading up things and discuss with the counselor, and require no mastery or skills.

The badges that may be useful like First Aid, are much better done through other organizations like Red Cross, which take about the same amount of time, but you’re getting a certification that legitimately verifies the learned skills.

Same with swimming or lifeguarding, take it through Red Cross to actually mean something if the student is looking for a summer job. Nobody is taking scout badges seriously.

A part time job is way more impactful for college applications, just check the common data set, it’s listed as a criteria for many colleges.

False. Please read from Ivy Scholars. My own Eagle got into 2 Ivies, UVA and is now at Oxford heading for Yale Law. And if you don't believe that, I receive a class profile from Harvard Law every year, which tells me, amongst many other statistics, how many Eagles are in the next incoming class. https://www.ivyscholars.com/eagle-scout-scholarships-college-admissions/#:~:text=Colleges%20often%20ask%20about%20how,material%20for%20this%20in%20spades.

[Anonymous]

It join the eagle late, can student pay extra to make catch up before junior?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eagle Scout is not a great extracurricular. It’s an assortment of achievements of dubious value and impact. They are not difficult, for the athletic ones, the level of physical preparedness is average so in that sense is less demanding than a sport. Many are just reading up things and discuss with the counselor, and require no mastery or skills.

The badges that may be useful like First Aid, are much better done through other organizations like Red Cross, which take about the same amount of time, but you’re getting a certification that legitimately verifies the learned skills.

Same with swimming or lifeguarding, take it through Red Cross to actually mean something if the student is looking for a summer job. Nobody is taking scout badges seriously.

A part time job is way more impactful for college applications, just check the common data set, it’s listed as a criteria for many colleges.

False. Please read from Ivy Scholars. My own Eagle got into 2 Ivies, UVA and is now at Oxford heading for Yale Law. And if you don't believe that, I receive a class profile from Harvard Law every year, which tells me, amongst many other statistics, how many Eagles are in the next incoming class. https://www.ivyscholars.com/eagle-scout-scholarships-college-admissions/#:~:text=Colleges%20often%20ask%20about%20how,material%20for%20this%20in%20spades.

Citing Ivy Scholars is not something that will persuade anyone. The link you provided explains that a small project that a scout did (creating a map of trails for a local park) is "not life changing" but it benefited the local community and it will give you something to talk about in essays about ways you contributed. That's can actually be considered worse than tons of other activities. This impact was fairly small and wasn't filling a real need or solving a real problem. (Were people wandering around this park lost for hours before the map of trails or is this simply a nice thing to have?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It join the eagle late, can student pay extra to make catch up before junior?

It takes a minimum of 17 months to get Eagle, but it would need to be pretty much the only activity the kid was doing. There is no way to make that shorter. (And really, that's unrealistic; most kids take at least twice that. That's just absolute fastest theoretically possible.)

[Anonymous]

The work ethic and focus to become an Eagle Scout likely pays off in academics. So while bring an ES in itself may not be a huge boost, OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL wrt scores and grades, the ES may tip the scale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The work ethic and focus to become an Eagle Scout likely pays off in academics. So while bring an ES in itself may not be a huge boost, OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL wrt scores and grades, the ES may tip the scale.

+1. This is what higher ed schools look for .. and got my Eagle into UVA, Ga Tech and
Purdue for aerospace engineering

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eagle Scouts often tend to be a bit spectrum-y. Not saying that in a mean way, just what I have noticed. Not all of them, but quite a few. Kids who are a little too obsessed with order, process and accumulating things. So they really need to use the rest of their application to show offsetting characteristics.

Are you in Scouting? I'm guessing not, because if you were you'd see what an incredible range of kids (and families) participate.

[Anonymous]

Does the Eagle Scouts provide accommodations?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eagle Scouts often tend to be a bit spectrum-y. Not saying that in a mean way, just what I have noticed. Not all of them, but quite a few. Kids who are a little too obsessed with order, process and accumulating things. So they really need to use the rest of their application to show offsetting characteristics.

Are you in Scouting? I'm guessing not, because if you were you'd see what an incredible range of kids (and families) participate.

They PP said "not all of them, but quite a few." You seem pretty defensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does the Eagle Scouts provide accommodations?

Kids can take the time they need to complete required tasks for advancements, if that's what you mean. It's primarily self-directed.

[Anonymous]

For some strange reason, any thread on Scouting draws out massive a-holes.

As the parent of 2 Eagle Scouts I will offer that it isn’t any sort of a silver bullet in the application process, but we weren’t looking one when our kids started out in 1st and 3rd grades. We liked the outdoor activities and the fact that it’s cooperative instead of competitive (they had enough of comparative experiences in school and sports). At some point both of my kids wanted to go on the high adventure activities and developed a relationship with scouting that was wholly independent from us.

[Anonymous]

Family of two ES and one GS Gold award. IMO this only helped DC in their applications. They all had good grades- all played varsity sports and had at least two other club ECs though so impossible to tell but all 3 got into and $ from more than one colleges that were listed as reaches for them in Scoir.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eagle Scouts often tend to be a bit spectrum-y. Not saying that in a mean way, just what I have noticed. Not all of them, but quite a few. Kids who are a little too obsessed with order, process and accumulating things. So they really need to use the rest of their application to show offsetting characteristics.

Are you in Scouting? I'm guessing not, because if you were you'd see what an incredible range of kids (and families) participate.

They PP said "not all of them, but quite a few." You seem pretty defensive.

I'm pretty sure PP wouldn't dismiss their own child's accomplishments this way; therefore, PP is not likely involved in Scouting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eagle Scouts often tend to be a bit spectrum-y. Not saying that in a mean way, just what I have noticed. Not all of them, but quite a few. Kids who are a little too obsessed with order, process and accumulating things. So they really need to use the rest of their application to show offsetting characteristics.

Are you in Scouting? I'm guessing not, because if you were you'd see what an incredible range of kids (and families) participate.

They PP said "not all of them, but quite a few." You seem pretty defensive.

I'm pretty sure PP wouldn't dismiss their own child's accomplishments this way; therefore, PP is not likely involved in Scouting.

You keep going with your strawman, Scarecrow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of Eagle Scouts send their badges back because of LGBT issues. Your audience is AO’s. AO’s are young and extremely progressive. Ask yourself if they give a shit about patriotic activities.

"A lot"? Highly doubtful, but apparently wishful thinking on your part.