[Nepeta]

I couldn’t fail to notice that among the aspirations of the Obama scholars, mathematician, engineer and physicist did not come up.

Technical competency requires real work. You have to actually learn math beyond long division, and apply it to problems to find real solutions! This is not the same thing as BSing one's way through Obama Studies. Obama Scholars, like their idol, will declare themselves intellectual overachievers while providing no evidence of such.

[xrmusn]

While I see nothing wrong with giving the kids a goal and something to strive for, the question begs..

Are there any white Obama scholars?
Is an Obama Scholar an automatic candidate to be a Rhodes Scholar?

I mean if Bill Gates were to set up a Gates Scholar program and all that were ‘in it’ were 30 white students I would imagine there would be some ‘hell’ to pay???