Scouts BSA Ranks

Everything in Scouts BSA Ranks

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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