Lotta people I know that were Echols graduated in 3 years because of the academic freedom. That’s a lot of money saved and could kinda be looked at as a scholarship in some ways lol.
Also Rodman’s do get a small amount of money now, but they’re slowly taking that funding away
The worst thing about Echols was having that as your dorm first year. Must have been asked ten thousand times how it was being an Echols Scholar because I lived in Echols.
Nope, not us man. They hide those kids somewhere else.
I went to a class once.
I had no clue what Comm school or Echols or Jefferson was until my second semester.
Just was lucky to get in.
They hid us mostly in Watson…a bit more in Webb. But that was forever ago…the best thing about Watson was easy access to Slaughter…
I was in Maupin. Our whole dorm was Echols and Rodmans with a few Jeff’s thrown in. Webb was the same. Watson was a mixed crowd. Totally agree about access to Slaughter being fantastic. And to O Hill and the Treehouse.
Also forgot, doesn’t UVA have a scholarship left? So it’s possible that Desmond gets at least a few semesters with a hoops scholarship with how the roster management works these days.
Would How get 1st chance at the scholarship this year?
The priority registration was the real benefit of being an Echols/Rodman. I was an engineer so priority registration wasn’t a huge deal, my major’s courses were very rigidly prescribed. But for Echols in the CLAS, that was huge. A few hundred bucks at the bookstore was nice too every semester, but I was on an ROTC scholarship (and later an RA as well) so that’s where my $$ came from. The Jeff Scholars were the real all-stars.
(Warning: story may be apocryphal or at least have some major errors) in my day, there was a Jeff Scholar who apparently had a Porsche or similar bc his folks bought one for him bc he got a free ride. So the question for UVa is whether that kid and his Porsche are worth having at UVa rather than Williams or wherever, over the kid whose bed he took who wound up at Elon or VPI or wherever, such that it’s better to give $$ to the Porsche parents over the 84 Chevy Celebrity parents. (Or more relevantly, create more pools of money to attract more Porsche kids). And these are of course ultimately politics, policy, ideology questions. I, of course, have no opinions on this that I will share here, other than the ones you could probably guess from the way I framed this.
To the victor go the spoils
There’s some interesting papers on this topic for those who like to read educational policy. “Georgia HOPE Scholarship” is a decent place to start.
I also hope that Desmond shows up at UVa in the big boy Range Rover or similar this summer
Fresh can you define aprocryphal for us? I’m struggling with it.
My wife got a full ride as an out-of-stater at South Carolina. Her parents gave her a Beamer. That’s all I got.
I think that word is one of the hallucinogenix that @haney takes while posting longer posts
I got a 1987 VW Jetta. 5000 bucks. My dad paid half my mon gave me 500 and we figured out the rest. Summer of 1990
Fresh parenting advice: Give em less and expect more
We’ve told our kids we will contribute half toward a car up to $5000 (so up to a $10,000 car) until they are 18. That way we can see how badly they really want the car before then. If not they borrow ours when needed. Our daughter is not yet 16 and has 2 seasons of soccer officiating under her belt and all of that is saving toward the car fund.
My son is 12 and he has been mowing our 14 acres (about 6 mowable acres) for half the price minus gas of a hired person since he was 10 … he is on pace to max out the car money. 
Oh and they get one shot at it. So if at 16 they have $3500 and want to go ahead with buying a $7000 car - they can. Or they can wait til they more.
Let Uncle Fresh talk to them. I would pocket the money and borrow dads car…
I worked my butt off in HS and received an AFROTC scholarship as well as applied and received additional scholarships to cover room and board (AFROTC does not cover that)… so I thought my parents would give me the college money they saved up for me to use for expenses and whatnot…
To my surprise… they used the money to put an extension on the house and build a bathroom with a whirlpool and waterfall shower. I was shocked!
Double the pain since I happen to know your sibling also got a ROTC scholarship (context: Jazznut and I were cadets together). They made out like bandits!
My parents did make a vague promise that if I could get a good chunk of scholarships and minimize what they had to help with, they’d find some sort of kick-back / reward upon graduation (additional motivation to keep grades up). So after piling up 4 years ROTC (only got stuck with one Iraq tour in exchange for it) plus two years as an RA covering room and board, my dad helped me with the late model used truck I got my 4th year. I plan to take a similar approach with my daughter.
Do cars exist anymore that are still 7k and 10k? 