This form is the official Scouting America New Hampshire portal for submitting your Eagle Scout Rank Application and requesting to schedule a Board of Review. To ensure a smooth process, we strongly recommend submitting your completed application, along with all required attachments and fulfilled requirements, through this portal on or before your 18th birthday.
After submitting your application:
• Council Review: Applications are processed every two weeks by the Council.
• District Review: After Council review, applications are sent to your District, where processing times may vary.
Be sure your application is complete, clear, and legible before submission. Remember, Scouting America allows Eagle Boards of Review to take place up to 24 months after your 18th birthday, as long as all requirements were completed before your 18th birthday (unless you have an approved exception) and the application and associated documents are submitted promptly.
You, the Eagle Scout candidate, are responsible for requesting references from the four people listed on your application, and you must make a diligent effort to ensure that the letters of reference are received promptly before your Board of Review. Your references may be Scout leaders, teachers, employers, coaches, and other Scouts. You are strongly discouraged from using parents or other relatives as references. Your current unit leader and committee chair are not eligible to serve as references; their signatures on your application are their endorsement. (If either of them declines to sign your application, you must attach your explanation for the absence of the signature(s).)
- If you have been given an extension of time to complete work on Eagle Scout requirements, upload the letter granting the extension. https://www.scouting.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GTA-11.2.0.0-form-2021.pdf
- If you have been approved to earn Alternative Merit Badge(s) for the Eagle Scout Rank, upload the approved Application(s) for Alternative Eagle Scout Rank Merit Badge(s) https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/512-730.pdf.
- If you completed your Eagle Scout requirements on or after your 18th birthday and you are registered beyond the age of eligibility, upload the letter from the council advancement committee or Scout executive, indicating that you have been approved to register beyond the age of eligibility.
- If you have earned Eagle Palms to be awarded concurrently with the Eagle Rank, upload an Advancement Report for the Palm(s) https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/34403.pdf (Do not include any advancements for any other Scouts.)
- If your Unit Leader and/or Unit Committee Chair decline to sign the Eagle application, upload your explanation for the absence of these signature(s).
Instructions for Letters of Reference
Please include the following in your letter of reference for an Eagle Scout Candidate:
- Your name, phone number, and email address.
- The name of the Eagle scout candidate from whom you are providing a letter of reference
- The District name and Unit number provided by the scout.
- How do you know this scout?
g. “I was/am their teacher, coach, scout leader, neighbor…; I am a friend of the family; they are a friend of my family; we attend the same church,” etc. - How long have you known this scout?
- The ideals of Scouting are spelled out in the Scout Oath, the Scout Law, the Scout Motto, and the Scout Slogan. Scouts measure themselves against these ideals and continually try to improve.
Scout Oath: On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
Scout Law: A Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent.
Scout Slogan: Do a Good Turn Daily.
Scout Motto: Be Prepared. - In your experience with this Scout, to what extent have they lived up to the Ideals of Scouting listed above? Use a scale of 1 to 5: 1= little or not at all; 5 = completely
- Please provide one or more specific examples to explain why you chose the rating that you did in the previous question.
- What other information should the board know when considering this Scout’s application to become an Eagle Scout?
Abnaki District
Scouts have two choices to collect references:
- Ask each person providing a reference to review the reference letter instructions, put their letter in an envelope you provide with “Eagle Scout Reference Letter for your name” on the front, seal it, and return it to you.
Then, you will bring the sealed envelopes to your Board of Review. - Or, ask each reference to go to https://forms.gle/VJ97Rd6SF9AZBgds7 to submit a letter of reference online. (Chrome and Microsoft Edge are the recommended web browsers for submitting letters of reference.)
Arrowhead District
Scouts should request that people providing references review the reference letter instructions and send letters to arrowhead.eagleadmin@nhscouting.org.
Historic District
Scouts should request that people providing references review the reference letter instructions and send letters to Historiceagleboard@gmail.com
Massabesic District
- Scouts should ask each person providing a reference to go to https://forms.gle/jxr56VLRFq1ySDo27 to submit a letter of reference online. (Chrome and Microsoft Edge are the recommended web browsers for submitting letters of reference.)
Mt Monadnock District
Scouts should ask each person providing a reference to go to https://forms.gle/rmGKuahsqYsCn2hq6 to submit a letter of reference online. (Chrome and Microsoft Edge are the recommended web browsers for submitting letters of reference.)
Sunapee District
Scouts should request that people providing references review the reference letter instructions and send letters to sunapee.district@nhscouting.org
Wannalancit District
Scouts should ask each person providing a reference to go to https://forms.gle/c5FgyacZHwJCKDq29 to submit a letter of reference online. (Chrome and Microsoft Edge are the recommended web browsers for submitting letters of reference.)
Instructions for Letters of Reference by US Mail
In some exceptional cases a letter might need to be sent by U.S. mail. In this exceptional case, the Eagle Scout candidate will ask each person providing a reference to review these instructions, and ask that the letter of reference be on 8.5” x 11” paper, with the first line Letter of Reference for Scout Name, Troop 999, District Name
The Scout should provide a stamped envelope addressed to:
Scouting America New Hampshire
[District Name] Eagle Board
1500 Bodwell Rd
Manchester, NH 03109
Letters received this way will be opened and scanned in the Council office and sent by email to the District Eagle Board Chair.
