<p>Grejuni, I'm unsure about your assertion that Nixon turned down a scholarship from harvard and Yale to attend a Quaker school since the Ivys GIVE NO ATHLETIC OR ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS, it's all based on need! Outside institutions, however, do give scholarships which you can use at the school (was Nixon "rich" when he was growing up?)</p>
<p>Skafe, here's what wikipedia says.</p>
<p>Nixon's early life was marked by hardships. Two of his brothers died before he was 21 and his family's ranch failed in 1922. The Nixons then moved to Whittier, California, the home of his mother's relatives, where his father opened a grocery store.[6]
Nixon initially attended Fullerton High School in Fullerton, but later transferred to Whittier High School, where he graduated second in his class in 1930. Financial concerns forced him to decline a scholarship to Harvard University[7] and to Yale University;[8] he instead enrolled at Whittier College,[9] a local Quaker school, where he co-founded a fraternity known as The Orthogonian Society.</p>
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Having turned down a scholarship to Harvard because the cost of cross-country transportation was prohibitive, he attended Whittier College...
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VQR</a> Richard Nixon Revisited</p>
<p>Harvard still has some Restricted Scholarship Funds, Harvard</a> University Committee on General Scholarships. If you're curious, it's worth poking around, because who knows? You might qualify for a scholarship. Of course, you have to win admission to Harvard in order to enjoy it. </p>
<p>Here's one:</p>
<pre><code>James A. RUMRILL Scholarships
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<p>Undergraduate nominees must have graduated from secondary schools in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, or Kentucky. Graduate students must have been awarded an undergraduate degree from an institution in any of the above-mentioned states.</p>
<p>Or, check your ancestry!</p>
<pre><code>1902 WORLD WAR MEMORIAL Scholarship
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<p>Restricted to descendants of members of the Class of 1902.</p>
<p>Periwinkle, thank you so much for this link. </p>
<p>My grandfather, D's great grandfather, graduated Harvard 1902
(Wish I had only known about this scholarship thirty seven years ago!)</p>
<p>Thirty-seven years ago, though, you couldn't have attended Harvard--only Radcliffe. (Assuming you're female.) Wouldn't it be funny if a chance comment on a website changed your daughter's life!</p>
<p>There are other scholarships at that link. Many are determined by town of residence.</p>
<p>I think the Nixon/Harvard hijack is complete!</p>
<p>Periwinkle - correct you are! Now that my memory has been jogged, I recall Radcliffe appealed strongly at the time! </p>
<p>I also discover that my D is a native resident of one the town scholarships. Who knows, maybe she was born under a lucky star.</p>
<p>I wonder how big that fund is now. Also, considering the town fund, I wonder if it is better for her to attend the public school here ( which is likely to happen without the FA we need for BS, anyway! ) . Although I bet a lot of her classmates will be applying as well, she is in a strong class.</p>