If I had an extra million dollars over and above what I need for my personal financial security I might decide to fund some scholarships for post-secondary education. (You'd think that would be "tertiary" education but somehow it has never been called that.)
1 The Samson Scholar
Named for the Hebrew judge famous for his great strength but actually more distinctive for other attributes.
Eligibility
• Hard-working as evidenced by maintaining
continuous employment (possibly but not
necessarily in your father's fields).
• Never cut your hair.
• Skill, or at least an attempt to become
skilled, in rhyming trash talk.
2 The Median Scholar
This is to give a free ride to someone who just would not get a big scholarship from traditional sources.
Eligibility
• Class rank of 1/2 in current or prior year;
specifically a rank between (count / 2) - 1
and (count / 2) + 1 for small schools or
between (count / 2) - (count / 100) and
(count / 2) + (count / 100) for large ones.
• also you get to pick whether the count is
all students in the class or all students
in the school or all students of the same
gender or some other plausible category.
3 The Morally Ambidextrous Scholar
For someone who can reach deep inside and draw on the contrary character within.
Eligibility
• First you have to know the story of the
creator twins and be able to tell it (at
least in summary form); you do not have
to be Haudenosaunee but how else would
you have this story?
• Then you have to show how your personal
character is a mix of the right handed
and left handed ways and how accepting
both makes you stronger.
• Finally you have to show that the right
handed way is the one dominant in you
because we do prefer strawberries to
stinging nettles.