#Eagle scout update

The question CANNOT be how many EScouts in a year, the question is : Anybody who quotes that silly 2% or 5% figure to show how hard Eagle is to get should be beaten about the head and shoulders with a slide rule.Ī false premise will result in a false result. Yeh can't take one year's Eagle awards and divide it by all seven years' membership figures. Ten enter each year, and ten Eagle each year. Of course, in reality 100% of the boys who join Boy Scouting would be earning Eagle.

Still sounds like Eagle is pretty hard to get, eh? By the BSA's figures, that's 10 boys out of 70 registered, or 14%. If every boy makes Eagle, then 10 boys on average every year will make Eagle. Well, if a troop gets 10 new boys a year (at age 11) and never loses anyone until they age out, then they'll have 70 boys in the troop. I expect it's at least 15% and probably a fair bit above that. What most of us mean by 'Percent that earn Eagle Scout' is 'What percent of the boys who join Boy Scouting eventually earn Eagle Scout?' As Oak Tree reminds us repeatedly, that number is much higher than 5%. As such, it's totally a bogus number when it's used to show that the Eagle award is 'rare' or 'hard to earn.' It glitters like moonbeams on cow pies. It's computed just the way epalmer suggests - take the total number of Eagles in a year and divide by the total number of registered Boy Scouts. Yah, the current BSA published Eagle percentage is a bit over 5%.

I suspect that National has chosen to use the first solution as the simplest. We don't have all of the numbers, but even if we did, we have to make decisions about the eligible pool. But, that ignores the 'career' First Class Scouts- those who stay in Scouting without advancing but still have the potential for Eagle. You take those out and it rises to something over 5%.īut if we disregard all of the ineligible Venturers, shouldn't we also ignore the ineligible Scouts? Only Life Scouts can make Eagle- now the pool is smaller and we get perhaps 15% or so- I don't have those numbers. Not all of those Venturers were eligible- some were female, some were over 18 and some never made First Class as a Scout. There were 49,895 Eagle Scout awards- that is 4.2%.īut. Please do not create a new application log back in using the link provided.To figure out the statistics, you need all of the numbers.

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