<p>daffinito, I can’t speak about the selection process at Richmond but I can tell you that it felt completely fair to me as a parent. Following is information on my daughter who is NOT a minority but was granted a Richmond Science Scholarship. She too has a 4.0 UW gpa with a 36 ACT, the val of her class of 350+. She had taken 6 AP classes prior to this year and has 5’s on each of them. This year she is taking an additional 6 AP classes. She will be the first from her school (and I think the school district) going to Richmond. She is involved in a few EC’s but very heavily in those and wrote some very unique and memorable essays.</p>
<p>If you don’t think the school is worth $50k, that’s of course your and your daughter’s choice. My daughter too had many choices since she was admitted at all the schools she applied to. At many of them, she received no scholarships at all. Her decision was to go to Richmond.</p>