Scouts BSA Ranks

Everything in Scouts BSA Ranks

• Eagle Scout Rank

  Seven requirements, three of them six months long, one of them needing four separate approvals before any work starts, and a deadline that does not move.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Deadlines Eagle Scout Merit Badges Rank Service Project

• Star Rank

  Eight requirements, five of which only count from the day First Class was approved, and two four-month clocks that run concurrently rather than one after the other.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review Merit Badges Rank Requirements Service Project

• Life Rank

  Eight requirements, two six-month clocks that run side by side rather than end to end, three hours of service that have to be conservation-related, and the only other place in the whole rank ladder that asks a Scout to teach.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review Conservation Merit Badges Rank Requirements Service Project Teaching

• Eagle Palms

  One Palm for every five merit badges beyond the twenty-one required for Eagle. The first ones are not earned, they are counted, and only the Palms after those have requirements. Three of them, no waiting period, and a deadline that is the 18th birthday rather than the board of review.

  Eagle Palms Deadlines Eagle Scout Merit Badges Process Rank

• Mechanics of Advancement in Scouts BSA

  The four steps by which a rank is earned (the Scout learns, is tested, is reviewed and is recognized) together with who may sign off a requirement and why a sign-off cannot be taken back.

  Scouts BSA Ranks For Adults Process Rank

• Scout Rank

  The joining rank: seven requirements, no board of review, and a Scoutmaster conference that the next rank explicitly builds on. All of it must be done as a member of a troop.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Rank Registration Requirements

• Tenderfoot Rank

  Eleven requirements, one of which is a thirty-day fitness calendar that Second Class and First Class then continue, and six of which wait on a single campout.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review Outdoors Rank Requirements

• Second Class Rank

  Twelve requirements, two of which are months long: five separate activities with two nights of camping, and four weeks of daily activity that cannot start until Tenderfoot requirement 6c is done.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review Outdoors Rank Requirements

• First Class Rank

  Thirteen requirements, including a five-part cooking project that must all happen on one planned campout, a rubbish-reduction requirement needing two outings, and the last four weeks of a fitness chain that began at Tenderfoot.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review Outdoors Rank Requirements

• Judging the Requirements That Are Hardest to Judge

  Active participation, Scout spirit, service projects, positions of responsibility and the unit leader conference. The rank requirements that cannot be checked by watching, and the tests the Guide to Advancement gives for each.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review For Adults Process Rank

• Time Extension Past the 18th Birthday

  Only for Life Scouts, only for Eagle, only where something outside the Scout's control made it impossible. Three tests, four weeks, six months.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Appeals Deadlines Eagle Scout Process Rank

• The Eagle Scout Service Project

  Requirement 5 is one sentence of the Eagle Scout rank and seventeen topics of the Guide. Who approves what, in which order, before any work may begin; what a project may not be; what a candidate has the right to expect from the people reviewing it; and the four things the Guide names as misconceptions.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Council Eagle Scout Process Rank Service Project

• Boards of Review

  A conversation, not an examination. It cannot be refused, it cannot be used to retest, and the date it happens is the date the rank was earned.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Appeals Boards of Review Eagle Scout Process Rank