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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Eagle Scout is not a great extracurricular[/b]. 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.

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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.[/quote]

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?)  [/quote]

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