<p>I thin kyou are confusing Boy Scouts (the bottom 98%) from Eagle Scouts which are a whole different breed.</p>
<p>And I am sure that there are some Harvard graduates if you took enough time to locate them who would not know how to spell barbeque either. Exceptions hardly divert from a point and schools such as Notre Dame and Annapolis brag about the percentage of Eagles in their classes.</p>
<p>barbecue the hard word to spell</p>
<p>barbeque...mmm</p>
<p>i know several eagle scouts myself, and the "quality" varies...i know some fine upstanding young men who put a lot of hard work into their projects, and i know some asinine hoodlums. so no generalizations should be made on the subject.</p>
<p>The rank of Eagle Scout is truly a prestigious award, and certainly there is work that goes along with it. Take it from a scouter of 9 years, and an Eagle Scout at that...in some cases the project is a joke. For example, i know a kid who organized a food drive (thats a pretty sorry project) I raised over a thousand dollars to construct a 250 foot picket fence around an old cemetary with a concrete walkway. It dosn't seem fair to me, but that is the way it goes. And you critics are right on a superficial level; most scouters are idiots who just like to screw around with fire, but the Eagle Scouts are a whole different breed. Sure maybe some are losers who have their parents do it for them, but every single Eagle Scout i have come into contact with posesses not only leadership qualities, but the experience of scouting. I mean, c'mon, how many of you Eagle Scout haters can claim to have hiked over 60 miles in 8 days...or climbed Mt. Whitney, at 14,000 feet. Also, the Eagle Scouts who i have come into contact with all attend prestigious schools. The schools these guys are going to include UCLA, UCSD, BYU (with a full ride acedemic scholarship), and Pepperdine. I even know one guy who is applying to Stanford. The point is I have experienced the Eagle Scout ride, and have seen the product of the program. To my judgment, the Eagle Scout award is worthy of our praise. So stop dissin'.</p>
<p>I am in the Boy Scouts now and I am really close to getting my eagle. Not to seem bias or anything the real reason its so valued over most EC's is b/c it is years and years of a combination of every type of leadership, service work, experience, etc... Those of you think merit badges are a joke you need to try them yourself. Someone said they had to weave some stupid basket but theres more to it.. you have to do around 21 merit badges and most of them are very difficult and teach you real important life skills that the average teenager wouldn't even kno of.. Plus becoming an eagle isn't something you can just start doing whenever you'd like... you have to be involved since you were little. personally ive been in boy scouts since I was 6 actually cub scouts and it is so hard and i mean so hard to continue with it.. it takes up so much time and put together with everything sometimes it doesn't seem worth it.. but when you get that final badge you know its all work it. ALL OF YOU WHO THINK EAGLE SCOUTS ARE OVERATED YOU SHOULD REALLY CONSIDER DOING IT TO YOURSELF CAUSE CHANCES ARE YOU WILL FAIL!!!!</p>
<p>60 miles in 8 days is not difficult to hike. Most healthy teenagers easily do that. </p>
<p>Also, try scaling a mountain under somewhat low oxygen conditions. Most of the eagle scouts I know would be grabbing for oxygen masks or other gear rather than ignoring it and going slow. </p>
<p>From what I have personally seen, eagle scout is nothing but scout who has been in teh program for 8 years, which requires not much skill from what I have seen. Maybe we should have a survival experiment in the wild to prove it.</p>
<p>Ok, lets go...</p>
<p>...and how many Eagle Scouts do you claim to know?</p>
<p>I'd really like for you to meet some actual Eagle Scouts so we can wash away your ignorant misperceptions about such a venerable achievement.</p>
<p>I'd also like for you to enroll yourself into a Boy Scout troop and try to attain the rank...and I mean an actual troop, not the one from wherever it is you're from. After doing it for one month and giving up, like most kids, I'd like to see what you have to say.</p>
<p>i am a life scout now and close to my eagle and i have to agree with the thread started to a certain degree. In my area ate least, it's not quite as serious and others may make it seem and omse of the MB's are ridiculous. But there is a curriculum of certain MB's you must recieve before obtaining eagle which are taher difficult and if im not mistaken, only 2% of boyscouts who start scouts end up becoming eagle so it does carry some weight IMO</p>
<p>I have better things to do than barbeque all day, but I know 3 eagle scouts and 2 other boy scouts. </p>
<p>One of the boy scouts regularly smokes pot and drives a mitsubishi lancer evolution 8 thanks to his parents.</p>
<p>Dont stereotype from that one person or draw conclusions from one example</p>
<p>As a star scout I must say it carries a more symbolic importance then what you all were saying. It's a significant award because it shows you can finish what you started. You start as a lonely tenderfoot with no friends and you slowly (but surely) make friends and become more social. Its a very significant award and I agree with you all that it might not possess any rigorous work/effort but its the foundation of knowledge and skills you learn including social skills,confidence,mastery in many forms of arts, and lifetime experiences and I believe colleges admire that.</p>
<p>We call that stereotyping...and it's really quite ignorant.</p>
<p>And I said this once, but I'll say it again, it's barbecue (you never know when knowing how to spell barbecue will come in handy).</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Scouts%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Scouts</a></p>
<p>go to this site, it speaks for itself</p>
<p>You say I stereotype, but aren't you stereotyping as well? Saying that most are quite the young leaders loaded with survival skills?</p>
<p>Anyways, barbeque is a variant of barbecue. Both are acceptable spellings.</p>
<p>actually a bottle of sauce I looked at a second ago says "barbeque"</p>
<p>Annapolis and Notre Dame seem to bet heavily on the stereotype you think is so specious and without merit</p>
<p>For .:every:. high quality "hook" there will be those who cheat the system. Eagle Scouts are not immune to this. Nevertheless being an Eagle Scout is a great hook if the rest of your app proves u arent fake- now please stop telling us about the pot smoking eagle scout u know because there are .:always:. exceptions to a general rule</p>
<p>The pot smoker is not eagle yet ;)</p>
<p>And I know a phi beta kappa who is a moron </p>
<p>and a CPA who doesn't know what an accrued expense is </p>
<p>-----showing that PBKs and CPAs are way overrated</p>