<p>“Because they got into an Ivy or MIT, or some school that’s actually more recognizable than UVA.”</p>
<p>Hah! Very funny! Actually, probably all if not almost all have been accepted at the Ivies. And I’m not talking Cornell and Penn, I’m talking HYP and Columbia, and outside of the Ivies the Scholarship draws people away From Stanford and every small lib. arts college you could think of. Several people who are offered the Jefferson Scholarship each year will indeed turn it down for those schools, but you’ll find at least as many who go the other way.</p>