Recommendation from Boy Scout troop Scoutmaster: good or bad idea?
Hi. I'm applying for several finance-related internships in the next month or so, and I was wondering if it was appropriate to use my old boy scout scoutmaster for a recommendation. I was actually the first senior patrol leader this scoutmaster had, and was also one of the first Eagle Scouts under this scoutmaster's current tenure. He really likes me, and I've kept in touch with him in good terms since leaving for college. There's one key activity I planned with him that really made our troop stand out, but for security reasons, I won't say what it was. I was senior patrol leader with him during the 2009 calendar year, so this wasn't that recently, but not REALLY long ago.
Thoughts?
I mean maybe but I really don't think so. I was never part of that whole scene but I can't imagine that really impressing anyone. If you are really hurting for ECs then include it but I wouldn't put a big section about it, just list it with other ECs.
What year are you? Is this your first internship?
If you don't have any real work experience and you're a freshman/sophomore, then using your scoutmaster as a reference is probably fine.
Yeah, I'm a sophomore at a 2nd level BB target (if Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Wharton are 1st level, think Dartmouth, Penn (not Wharton) UChicago, Duke, Cornell, Brown as the 2nd level). I was able to get a solid internship over this summer and the summer before, but it was at the same firm and therefore only have one source. Would having a second reference, even if it's not necessarily finance-related, be good in this case?
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