@Mom2aphysicsgeek and @mtrosemom, the NESA deadline is not until 10/31/16. So your Eagle Scouts still have 10 days to get their applications in! My son applied 3 years ago and literally submitted without more than 5 minutes to spare! And he got a scholarship.
I am not aware of any colleges give scholarships to Eagle Scouts specifically. NESA is your best place to go.
Mom2aphysicsgeek, we have ATT gophone. I add 250 minutes of international calling (to landlines, select countries to mobile as well) to my plan for $5 a month
^We also use whatsapp to text my family in Germany (free over wifi)
@mtrosemom Congratualations to your D! Such a wonderful accomplishment!!!. We went to our neighbor’s Eagle Scout ceremony and helped record the whole process. It was such a wonderful moment for the young man and his parents!. So proud!!!
OK, finishing my FAFSA and didn’t realize how close I was to being done in the first place! Question for the group. We own ‘half’ of a piece of crap lake cottage that we purchased and share with a HS friend of mine and his family. We still have a small mortgage on the place, with all 4 parent’s names on it. We each pay half of the mortgage via a common checking account we set up. I’m assuming it’s pretty straightforward to determine the ‘investment’ value by just cutting the normal calculation in half. Is there anything I need to look out for in the event I need to verify anything? We have no written agreement (meant to do something 23 years ago LOL) about anything related to whether it’s 50/50 or anything like that.
@hadmeathello – not meaning to give you legal advice but it your payment records show you are paying 50/50 of mortgage and are all on deed that’s pretty helpful backup IMO. Do records show funding of the bank account? Would not be a bad idea though to have some simple writing about this ownership arrangement.
Math Question - re GPA calculation senior year - mid-year - are courses treated as 1/2 year weight or as if fell year was completed? For example a student has 24 credits through junior year and a 96 average and is taking 6 courses senior year. When the student’s GPA is calculated for counselor’s midyear report, student’s GPA for senior courses is a 90 average. Do senior courses get treated as a full 6 credits or half bc only half the year is over?
If full weight is given to the 6 senior courses (treated as if full year completed) the GPA is recalculated to 94.8. If senior courses are treated as half a year credit then I think the student’s ave is 95.33. Just curious - anyone know how this mid-year cumulative GPA is “supposed” to be calculated?
@CA1543 – that looks suspiciously like an SAT math question!
In our online grading portal, each semester’s grade is entered as half weight. So, an A or 4.0 appears as a 2.0 for first semester, and then half of whatever grade is earned for second semester, hopefully another 2.0. This allows for one semester courses, but my son has never taken any.
Our semester does not end until very late in January (assuming no snow days before then), so I don’t know if a college will even see 7th semester GPA. I suppose I will find out this year since this child will be applying to some RD schools.
All this talk of Eagle Scout…SO IMPRESSIVE! I hope someone tapes & photographs the ceremony. CONGRATS @mtrosemom to your son, and your family, as I imagine his work impacted all of you.
@4beardolls I meant my ds missed the deadline back when he was applying to college. Only girls in our home, now.
Thanks @CA1543. We’ve gotten through re-fi’s of our primary home, and never a huge issue, so I can probably handle the FA aid office at a college? Or is it worse? 
I will get something in writing from my buddy and keep copies of the bank statement for a few months.
Well, math test supposedly didn’t go great…but then they never do, until she gets the grade back. D texted that she is getting the ‘drumline salute’ tonight at senior night. Not sure what that is, but she’s excited.
@STEM2017 Hmm, Repository of Eagle scholarships - I should add that as one of the tasks for Troop Webmaster position ;), hoping S19 takes that position over summer :)) :)) E-cycle sounds like a great idea. We have haz mat recycling center not far away. I was hoping S19 would mentor elementary robotics team but that never went anywhere. Thank you for the ideas :))
I have Tmobile and had no service at Case campus and in Cambridge, MA :-S 
I’ll probably get DS17 a Verizon Iphone after 5/1, his first smartphone. ;
@payn4ward, pm me if you want any details. The e-waste recyle day and community education about e-waste would be an strong Eagle project in my mind.
@CT1417 – haha – too easy for the SAT calc section?? The way you describe it what makes sense to me - curious though how schools are doing it for full year courses. Our kids’ EA schools won’t see the first quarter grades issued in November??
@payn4ward – I have enjoyed excellent coverage with Verizon in cities and along the northeast corridor. (One could argue that the NE corridor is a string of cities…)
Coverage is spotty where expected: along the water and in less densely populated areas where residents will not allow a cell tower.
Impressed that your son has carried on w/o a smart phone. My younger son has zero use for Facebook, but unfortunately, many groups at school use it to communicate (lab partners, clubs, etc)
Thank you @mtrosemom ! Hmm, he could do a e-waste presentation for his Communication merit badge. Lots of good ideas! :x
@hadmeathello if you have your mortgage statement and you know what you paid for it I think you should be fine just using half as your value for both FAFSA only requires that information where is the profile will ask for market value.
@CA1543 at our school cumulative gpa by is the semester until the year ends so at the end of first semester the cumulative reflects 7 semesters but there is no senior year gpa to be shown yet, only 9,110, 11 and cumulative. That way it really doesn’t matter if a class is one semester or all year, each semesters grade is independent.
@mtrosemom and @STEM2017 I know I have seen some Eagle Scout specific scholarships on various websites before. @payn4ward I love the idea of it as a webmaster project, especially since S19 is the webmaster! Lol
@CA1543 – not sure what you are asking? I think we discussed this recently, or maybe it was somewhere else.
Our kids’ EA schools won’t see the first quarter grades issued in November??
Some schools will push out the first quarter grades to all EA/ED/SCEA schools; our HS suggests the students self-report, but some colleges require that the grades come from school, so student has to ask GC to send grades. I don’t know how many colleges would attempt to recalc the GPA since the grades are not semester grades, but quarter grades, and subject to change.
My explanation about calculation of seventh semester GPA was addressed more clearly by @eandesmom. Full year courses are treated as two single-semester courses, for the purpose of calculating GPA. Each of our semester grades is independent of the other; we do not have a year-end grade for a full year course, but instead, two semester grades.
I don’t think I have helped clarify anything…
@payn4ward We will be doing the same for a first smart phone around graduation timeframe, although he will be the one paying for the phone.
@CT1417 He is inseparable from his Ipod touch and ipad. Since school, home and other places have wifi, he can text using hangout, do facetime, and skype, etc. He does not do any social media though. Only has an FB account with no updates.
My younger son has a Verizon Iphone but I signed him up with PagePlus, a verizon MVNO, mobile virtual network operator, so the monthly cost with unlimited text and 1G data is about $30 instead of an arm and a leg.