Requirement

3. Earn a total of 21 merit badges

Required

Fourteen required badges and seven of your own choosing. Three of the fourteen are a choice between two or three badges, so the list you choose from is eighteen badges long.

What this is made of

Where this step comes from

  1. Scouts BSA Rank Requirements (Requirements sheets dated 2025-12), Eagle Scout rank requirement 3 · The requirement itself: 21 badges, of which 14 come from the named categories (a) to (n).
  2. Eagle Scout Rank Application (January 2026 Revision), Requirement 3 · How the badges are recorded on the form, which is not the same as what the requirement asks for.
  3. Merit Badge Requirements (Current online edition) · What each individual badge requires.

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