<p>Is this a hook?</p>
<p>No…</p>
<p>Maybe a tip at some schools. Some schools, like Texas A&M, love Eagles, however.</p>
<p>It is a good EC.</p>
<p>The Yale and Harvard reps that came to my kids school said that they LOVE Eagle Scouts! The Yale rep said, “We’ll take as many as we can.”</p>
<p>Also, if you stayed in the program after making Eagle, that means a lot, too. So, yes, it can be a hook, but your stats also must be stellar. :)</p>
<p>It’s a great EC, but not a hook.</p>
<p>What Eagle or GS Gold Award on a resume/application often does, though, is provide a great talking point in interviews, at the college level and beyond. You can learn a lot about someone from hearing them talk about what their Eagle or Gold project was - and kids who are reluctant to talk about themselves in other ways are often very comfortable opening up about scouting experiences.</p>
<p>And for all that neither is a hook, it’s certainly possible that they create or deepen a favorable impression of your kid’s overall profile. (Though there are people whose responses are lukewarm at best, too.)</p>
<p>Sounds good.
He has continued scouting since earned Eagle,
has since earned a Palm,
and is Order of the Arrow
and has earned the Triple Crown for the 3 extreme Expeditions.</p>
<p>Never heard of the Triple Crown. Cool.</p>
<p>Doing the 87 miles trek at Philmont,
100 miles canoe/portage at Northern Tier and
the sea kayak/expedition at SeaBase</p>
<p>3 expeditions earn the Triple Crown award…he did one each summer.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>awesome!</p>
<p>What was his Eagle Project.</p>
<p>BTW… I don’t agree with some here. Like I said above, the reps from Harvard and Yale said that they love Eagles and the Yale said that they take as many as they can.</p>
<p>It was my nephew’s hook (his other EC was cross country and track which don’t count for much). He made Eagle rather young, stayed in the program. I’m sure that Columbia was impressed by his Eagle project as well as his post-Eagle participation. I think something was called a Silver something. Don’t remember.</p>
<p>I’m not suggesting that being an Eagle can overcome less-than-stellar stats. My nephew had high stats, too, deep within their top 25%.</p>
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<p>Yes, and they say the same about athletes. legacies, minorities (the real hooked) and then about artists, musicians, beekeepers, oboe players, ping pong players…</p>
<p>An adcom’s job is to get as many to apply as possible.</p>
<p>^ Haha, so true. It shows passion, dedication, and motivation. But then again, so can every other EC. It is not that it is prestigous, but the attributes it took to get it are the same ones colleges want in admission candidates.</p>
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<p>A Columbia adcom came to my school and said that “No one gets rejected based on their SAT scores, and no one gets accepted based on their SAT scores.” I almost laughed out loud.</p>
<p>We do know if DS was going to the miltary–Eagles get a rank boost of some type
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we do know that Eagle is the only thing a man continue to put on his resume…and follows him for a lifetime</p>
<p>The Eagles that have gone on to do great things - become Presidents for example- is amazing and the number of young men who attain it is very very small…even compared to oboe players…;o)<br>
many many do not consider it just another ec…</p>
<p>hmom5-I’m an oboe player with pretty high stats but I’ve never heard that oboists were even stereotypically hooked before…how widespread is this stereotype?</p>
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<p>Knowing what my Eagle nephews have accomplished (including their fab Eagle projects and post Eagle work), I would not consider it “just another EC”. But, I can imagine that those who aren’t that aware of the whole Eagle and post-Eagle process might think it is.</p>
<p>No, it is not a hook. Yes, many folks consider it a super-EC. Others, though, consider the BSA to be a homophobic rightwing paramilitary organization. Personally, I dropped out at “Life”; my brother is more proud of his Eagle than anything else he has ever accomplished.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>I agree with sherpa, although, as an obsequious conformist, I am an Eagle Scout and still active in my troop, meanwhile keeping from everyone the fact that I am a gay vegetarian atheist. Also…at risk of threadjacking, I was wondering about how much I should emphasize Boy Scouts/Eagle Scout. It’s already in ECs, service, awards, etc. Should I also use it in, for example, my leadership essay, or would this be beating a dead horse?</p>
<p>DS used it for his leadership essay.</p>
<p>Kaekae -I’d play it low key. BSA lovers will admire your modesty if you don’t push it; BSA haters will hold back on the hate if you don’t overplay it.</p>
<p>Unless I’m wrong.</p>