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How hard is it to become an Eagle Scout?Earning the rank of Eagle should not be something a youth takes lightly. The basic requirements for the rank ate fairly straight forward.1, Be active in your troop, team, crew, or ship for a period of at least six months after you have achieved the rank of Life Scout.2. Demonstrate that you live by the principles of the Scout Oath and Scout Law in your daily life. List on your Eagle Scout Rank Application the names of individuals who know you personally and would be willing to provide a recommendation on your behalf, including parents/guardians, religious, educational, and employer references.3. Earn a total of 21 merit badges (10 more than you already have), including the following: (a) First Aid, (b) Citizenship in the Community, (c) Citizenship in the Nation, (d) Citizenship in the World, (e) Communication, (f) Cooking , (g) Personal Fitness, (h) Emergency Preparedness OR Lifesaving, (i) Environmental Science OR Sustainability, (j) Personal Management, (k) Swimming OR Hiking OR Cycling, (l) Camping, and (m) Family Life.4. While a Life Scout, serve actively in your unit for a period of six months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility. List only those positions served after your Life board of review date. ***Boy Scout troop. Patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, senior patrol leader, Venture patrol leader, troop guide, Order of the Arrow troop representative, den chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, junior assistant Scoutmaster, chaplain aide, instructor, webmaster, or Leave No Trace trainer.Varsity Scout team. Captain, cocaptain, program manager, squad leader, team secretary, Order of the Arrow team representative, librarian, historian, quartermaster, chaplain aide, instructor, den chief, webmaster, or Leave No Trace trainer.Venturing crew/ship. President, vice president, secretary, treasurer, quartermaster, historian, den chief, guide, boatswain, boatswain’s mate, yeoman, purser, storekeeper, webmaster, or Leave No Trace trainer.Lone Scout. Leadership responsibility in his school, religious organization, club, or elsewhere in his community.While a Life Scout, plan, develop, and give leadership to others in a service project helpful to any religious institution, any school, or your community. (The project must benefit an organization other than Boy Scouting.) A project proposal must be approved by the organization benefiting from the effort, your unit leader and unit committee, and the council or district before you start. You must use the Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook,BSA publication No. 512-927, in meeting this requirement. (To learn more about the Eagle Scout service project, see the Guide to Advancement, topics 9.0.2.0 through 9.0.2.15.)5. Take part in a unit leader conference.6. Successfully complete an Eagle Scout board of review.† In preparation for your board of review, prepare and attach to your Eagle Scout Rank Application a statement of your ambitions and life purpose and a listing of positions held in your religious institution, school, camp, community, or other organizations, during which you demonstrated leadership skills. Include honors and awards received during this service. (This requirement may be met after age 18; see below.)Overall, these requirements can be completed in about 3.5 years, but you learn a lot more if you take your time and spend as much time as you need to complete them.

It’s not, really.Let’s take a look at the requirements, shall we? (courtesy, boyscouttrail.com)Rank Requirements:Be active in your troop for at least six months as a Life Scout.As a Life Scout, demonstrate Scout Spirit by living the Scout Oath and Scout Law. Tell how you have done your duty to God, how you have lived the Scout Oath and Scout Law in your everyday life, and how your understanding of the Scout Oath and Scout Law will guide your life in the future. List on your Eagle Scout Rank Application the names of individuals who know you personally and would be willing to provide a recommendation on your behalf, including parents/guardians, religious (if not affiliated with an organized religion, then the parent or guardian provides this reference), educational, employer (if employed), and two other references.Earn a total of 21 merit badges (10 more than required for the Life rank), including these 13 merit badges: (a) First Aid, (b) Citizenship in the Community, (c) Citizenship in the Nation, (d) Citizenship in the World, (e) Communication, (f) Cooking, (g) Personal Fitness, (h) Emergency Preparedness OR Lifesaving, (i) Environmental Science OR Sustainability, (j) Personal Management, (k) Swimming OR Hiking OR Cycling, (l) Camping, and (m) Family Life.You must choose only one of the merit badges listed in categories h, i, and k. Any additional merit badge(s) earned in those categories may be counted as one of your eight optional merit badges used to make your total of 21.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________While a Life Scout, serve actively in your troop for six months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility:Scout troop: Patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, senior patrol leader, troop guide, Order of the Arrow troop representative, den chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, junior assistant Scoutmaster, chaplain aide, instructor, webmaster, or outdoor ethics guide.Venturing Crew: President, vice president, secretary, treasurer, den chief, historian, guide, quartermaster, chaplain aide, or outdoor ethics guide.Sea Scout Ship: boatswain, boatswain's mate, purser, yeoman, crew leader, media specialist, specialist, den chief, or chaplain aide.Lone Scout: Leadership responsibility in your school, religious organization, club, or elsewhere in your community.While a Life Scout, plan, develop, and give leadership to others in a service project helpful to any religious institution, any school, or your community. (The project must benefit an organization other than the Boy Scouts of America.) A project proposal must be approved by the organization benefiting from the effort, your Scoutmaster and unit committee, and the council or district before you start. You must use the Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook, BSA publication No. 512-927, in meeting this requirement. (To learn more about the Eagle Scout service project, see the Guide to Advancement, topics 9.0.2.0 through 9.0.2.16.)While a Life Scout, participate in a Scoutmaster conference.Successfully complete your board of review for the Eagle Scout rank. In preparation for your board of review, prepare and attach to your Eagle Scout Rank Application a statement of your ambitions and life purpose and a listing of positions held in your religious institution, school, camp, community, or other organizations, during which you demonstrated leadership skills. Include honors and awards received during this service. (This requirement may be met after age 18, in accordance with Guide to Advancement topic 8.0.3.1.)As you can see, the focus is on leadership. To some, this comes naturally. To others, as was the case of myself, it was instilled through the BSA program.None of these are very difficult, at least as an adult viewing them. As a teenager, though, they can look as insurmountable as Everest.Service Project. The project requirement especially can seem impossible, because the options for it are nearly limitless, and the candidate doesn’t know where to start. Most scouts seem to think that they need to reinvent the wheel or come up with something that’s never been done before. That’s NOT what the project is about.The core of the project is to test the leadership skills that the scout has gained throughout the program in a way that benefits their community. That’s it. There’s even a workbook that breaks everything down for you step by step, and still, most scouts have their head so wrapped around this difference-making project that they can’t think that small. They can also, and are encouraged to, have an adviser.Enough about the project, though, let’s look at the rest of the requirements.Merit badges. The entire merit badge program was designed to introduce the scout to something they’ve never experienced before. Then the Eagle rank comes along (nope, it didn’t always exist) and makes a certain number of merit badges required. Why? Take a look at the list again. Every single badge is made to help the scout to become the best person, citizen, version of themselves, they can possibly be.Position of Responsibility. The point of Scouts BSA is not to make Eagle Scouts. Here’s what the BSA mission statement says: “The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.” The whole reason for putting the scouts through all this is to make leaders. What better way to test your leadership than being in a leadership position within the troop?Letters of Recommendation. Here’s a hint, the leaders already know what kind of person you are, they don’t necessarily need to see what other people have to say about you. What’s in those letters are more for the scout to know how much people value them than to let other adults know. It also measures the scouts confidence; it takes courage to ask someone to write a letter of recommendation about them.So you see, it’s not that it’s hard to earn the rank of Eagle Scout…it’s just that a lot of scouts mentally talk themselves out of it without trying.I hope this helps.

tl;dr If they meet the requirements you have to advance them. Try to do so graciously and still provide the leadership training and opportunities for the Scout to learn.-----The long answer:There are some potential misconceptions here.First, "leadership skills" are not a requirement for advancement. The closest to that would be the Eagle leadership project, and the requirement for Eagle Palms*. ("Make a satisfactory effort to develop and demonstrate leadership ability.") For other ranks above First Class, the requirement is one of a Position of Responsibility, not a "leadership" position.Second, the First Class Scout must hold a Position of Responsibility from a specific list for a minimum of four months, "or carry out a Scoutmaster-assigned leadership project to help the unit" before meeting that requirement for Star Scout. The list of positions in a Boy Scout troop is: Patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, senior patrol leader, Venture patrol leader, troop guide, Order of the Arrow troop representative, den chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, bugler, junior assistant Scoutmaster, chaplain aide, instructor, troop Webmaster, or Leave No Trace trainer.These positions are elected/assigned by the Scouts with oversight of the Scoutmaster, and not chosen by the adult leaders. The troop is not required to make one of these positions available at the convenience of the Scout. It's a happy occurrence when that happens, but often the positions have a particular term length so Scouts that advance mid-term may have to wait.Finally, unit leaders (Scoutmasters)…do not have the authority to deny a Scout a conference that is necessary for him to meet the requirements for his rank. If a unit leader conference is denied, a Scout—if he believes he has fulfilled all the remaining requirements—may still request a board of review. (BSA Guide to Advancement)What this means is, if the Scout has completed all the requirements, the Scoutmaster does not have the authority to deny him advancement.It's an open question whether the Scout in this particular instance has met the requirement to "demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath and Scout Law in your everyday life." But if he has, and has met all the other requirements, no one has the right to hold him back.All that said, I've seen Scouts that I felt were too immature for their rank. There are boys (and especially parents) who feel that ticking a checkbox is good enough, and they are technically correct. However, they're robbing themselves of some of the actual point of Scouting (in my opinion).