EAGLE SCOUT ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP  

Purpose: To present annually one or more $1,000 (non-renewable) scholarship to a qualified candidate who best represents the Scouting's Ideals and Eagle Scout Association. The scholarship will be awarded to an Eagle Scout based upon his Scouting involvement, his academic interest, his commitment to the BSA principles, and his life as an Eagle Scout.

Qualifications:  Any Eagle Scout who is a registered member of a Scouting Unit in the Yankee Clipper Council, Boy Scouts of America and a member of the Yankee Clipper Eagle Scout Association (under the age of 21) and who is applying to enter a post secondary school in his freshmen year. No applicant to graduate school will be considered.

Requirements: All applicants must

1. Have been granted the Eagle rank, or have verified that their application for that rank has been received at the national office.

2. Be a member of the Yankee Clipper Council Eagle Scout Association at the time the application is submitted.

3. Be a graduating high school senior entering a post secondary school in the year that the scholarship is applied for. If the Eagle Scout earns the rank after the scholarship deadline and enters his freshman year, he may apply in the next year's application period.

4. Provide with the application a personal letter of intent to attend school, a statement of his Scouting involvement and commitment, two written recommendations from friends or employers, and a written recommendation from his current unit leader.

5. Be willing to allow his name and picture to be used in recognition of his selection for the scholarship in local newspapers, Scouting website and newsletters, and at his school’s graduation awards event.

6. Attend, if possible, the next Eagle Scout Recognition dinner as the guest of the Eagle association.

Procedures: The Eagle Scout applying must

• Complete the application personally Eagle Scout Association Scholarship Application

• Enclose only items requested (no biographies, resumes, or supplementary list of activities).

• Answer all questions on the application.

• Include on each attachment the applicant’s name and social security number.

• Submit all attachments with the application form to ensure that all items are available for review at the same time.

• Address complete application to: Eagle Scholarship Committee, Yankee Clipper Council, BSA, 36 Amesbury Road, Haverhill, MA 01830.
  FAXES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR CONSIDERATION.

• Be advised that only those applications postmarked after January 15 but no later than midnight on April 1 and received by April 5 will be considered.

• Be advised that applications become the property of the selection committee and will not be returned to the applicant. Between April 15 and May 15, the selection committee, will in writing, inform all applicants of its decision.

The Association Secretary will notify the selected Eagle Scout in writing and will also notify his school guidance department of the selection. The letter to the Eagle Scout must spell out that a copy of his school commitment (a tuition bill) must be sent to the Association Treasurer. Upon receipt of the bill and request, the Treasurer will issue a check to the institution and mail it to the recipient.

The recipient Eagle Scout may be asked to speak at the next annual Eagle Scout Recognition Dinner as the guest of the Eagle Scout Association.