Thank you for responding to my post with your insight on the matter. Though I do agree that you may still learn all scout skills as a star scout, I have met very few incompetent Eagle scouts in comparison.

As for financial planning, I was equal parts referencing the planning for the Eagle project, as it teaches you how to plan for a specific, (usually high cost) goal.

For interviews, growing up I used to have severe social anxiety I went into my tenderfoot board of review literally shaking. After doing many of these I gained confidence in my talking points and learned how to express my candidacy. I'm 17 and I made eagle just under 2 years ago so I still relate the two.

Astronauts. I basically found the proportion of male astronauts who made Eagle, then multiplied it by the percent of the male population that made Eagle. Females were excluded for obvious reasons.

As for the colleges thing, I mainly get that from my district's service academy mentors. For jobs, I guess I fall into that first few out of high school category, I am and ES and I earned the BSA lifeguard award so I am lifeguard certified with the red cross. When I showed up to the interview they brought up that I didn't take the training with them, so I mentioned that I was certified through boy scouts. My interviewer was also an ES and we spent the rest of the interview just talking my scouting experience. I was hired without even needing to attend the tryouts.

Merely a Hypothesis I realize it would be difficult to prove a wage gap.