Re: [Philmont] - philmont Digest - V01 #1189

Has been previously suggested. A good idea, that would certainly have a
beneficial impact for a couple of years, but it was felt that it
could/would also eventually result in twice as many applicants. Not so
sure about THAT, but the effective downside would be it would be
difficult to try and give any increasing bias to Units who apply year
and year without success. At least, in any useful sense - if a Unit
loses out twice under such a system, that's it for chances for even the
youngest age eligible Scouts who applied the first year. As opposed to
four tries if you can try every year. Of course, since we don't have
any bias now anyway....

Bob SCHAETTLE wrote:
> Well, for what it's worth, here's an easy option that would help even
> things out pretty quickly: let even-numbered troops attend in
> even-numbered years, and odd numbered troops attend in odd-numbered
> years. I would bet that over the entire BSA the split between odds and
> evens would be pretty close to 50%.
> --Bob Schaettle
> Rochester, MN

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Received on Mon Nov 29 21:24:05 2004