<p>Congratulations to your niece! The Davis scholarships are a truly remarkable philanthropic act. They originally provided full-tuition scholarships to any graduate of the United World Colleges who gained admission to one of the inaugural institutions: Colby, College of the Atlantic, Middlebury, Princeton, and Wellesley. </p>
<p>They now provide very generous scholarships at those schools and up to $10,000 in need-based scholarships at another 71 colleges.</p>
<p>You can find details at the Davis United World College Scholars website:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.davisuwcscholars.org/html/about-story.html[/url]”>http://www.davisuwcscholars.org/html/about-story.html</a></p>
<p>The UWC have sterling academic reputations, and it sure won’t hurt that your niece will be applying lots of places with scholarship money that doesn’t come from the colleges’ funds in tow :)</p>