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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe I am late to the game but I met a parent who told me to sign up for cub scouts with her kid so the boys can ear badges and become Eagle Scouts and put that on their college applications.. I was a bit shocked that a parent of a 4th grader is planning to do this.. is this a thing? Kids do scouts for college applications? Cub scouts gets you into an Ivy ? 
Do kids do anything just for their own interest or love/passion? Or is it only because of what would look good on their applications? [/quote]

Yup.  Cub scouts guarantees you an Ivy.

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Many people are saying this.[/quote]
ok, people, stop teasing OP.

No, OP, it's not a guarantee. It might help later in life for an internship, but not in college admissions.

DS is an Eagle Scout, now in college. It didn't help DS get into his top 2 choices, but then again, he is a CS major.  But, being an Eagle Scout can be like being in a fraternity in that when another Eagle Scout sees your resume with Eagle Scout on it, they may put that resume in the "follow up" pile, rather than the discard pile.[/quote]

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