MCDUFF: Merit scholars don’t need more money
The two largest merit scholarships a rising fourth-year student at the University of Virginia can receive are the Gray-Carrington and Sky Alland awards. Both scholarships pay for full tuition — whether in-state or out-of-state — as well as room and board during the recipient’s fourth year. The characteristics that the Gray-Carrington scholarship honors are “personal integrity, achievement, leadership and humility,” while the Sky Alland rewards “leadership, achievement, enterprising spirit, humility, and devotion to the University.” I find it remarkably shocking that both scholarships claim “humility” as one of their qualifying factors — and the Gray-Carrington even goes on to include “personal integrity” — when year after year Jefferson Scholars are considered for and awarded these scholarships.