<p>How much does being an Eagle Scout really help you when applying?</p>
<p>Who knows but every little bit helps or at least can’t hurt.</p>
<p>It’s just another nice EC. Use the search function, there’s lots of past threads on the subject.</p>
<p>It depends solely on how much the award means to you outside of college admissions.</p>
<p>I’m an Eagle Scout who will be at Princeton nex year, for what it’s worth.</p>
<p>In my opinion, it depends on the school and other factors such as grades and scores but the Eagle Scout Award and Girl Scout Gold Awards are pretty significant and are not taken lightly. It is not the awards projects themselves but the long term commitment of time, work, leadership and community service that goes into becoming an award winner. Most award recipients have put in between 8-11 years in scouts which shows long term commitment to an EC and as those of you who have been in scouts know, you have spent many, many hours over the years with community service and leadership. This is what I believe that the adcoms like to see, not just the award itself. By the way, D was a GS Gold Award winner and she got into all 9 schools she applied to including UCLA and Berkely, so it may have helped.</p>
<p>For anybody who knows what Eagle Scout means, including most adcoms, they will be tremendously impressed. Becomming an Eagle Scout requires three to four full years of work to meet all the requirements and only about 2% of all Scouts ever attain it. An Eagle Scout is trained in many demanding areas including lifesaving and survival skills and must complete a pretty substantial body of specialized work as well. Schools like Notre Dame and Annapolis routinely brag about the perecentage of Eagles/Gold Awards in their freshman classes.</p>
<p>I saw the similar threads section below after i posted this thread, sorry about the re-post.
I know achieving eagle is no easy task (I finished all my requirements just 4 hours before my 18th birthday setting a new troop record (= and taking 7 years +1 year of advancement deference) but after apply to schools in for fall 2009 and getting rejected by all of them I feel as though being an Eagle Scout has almost lost its value.</p>
<p>snowmonkey, I suggest you pick up the bool Legacy of Honor and consider how ridiculous and contrary to the principles of Scouting and the meaning of the Eagle award your last statement was. Again, if Scouting is important in your life and you highlighted his in your application, I’m sure that anyone who reads it will be immensely impressed.</p>
<p>P.S. My dad has gotten ver nice jobs based solely on the fact that he is an Eagle Scout.</p>