I say take it. I'm not a fan of beauty pageants even though my younger sister was one of the youngest Miss West Central Georgia's in that pageant's history.
She laughs about it now. She won a $100.00 Miss Clairol scholarship
She has 2 daughters and said they'd only be in them if they wanted to participate.
I work with a lady whose college age daughter was just in a pageant and didn't win, but this lady spent a FORTUNE outfitting her for it and that's all we heard about at work for 2 months beforehand.