Provide a future leader with a foundation built from the VMI experience.
Whether athletic or academic, scholarships offer cadets the opportunity to embrace academic rigor coupled with a commitment to honor, duty, and professionalism.
The Corps of Cadets is made up of students from diverse economic backgrounds who share the willingness to face the challenge of a VMI education. Whether receiving financial awards based on need, athletic prowess, academic merit, or military service through ROTC, some 87% receive aid.
The gift of a scholarship ensures that dedicated cadets can focus on their education and continue to be shaped by the entire VMI experience.
Ensuring that a lack of money never prevents a deserving young person from attending VMI is one of the Institute’s biggest challenges and greatest desires – and requires significant private support.
Grant-in-aid support makes it possible for cadet-athletes to proudly participate in the highest level of intercollegiate athletic competition while dedicating themselves to lives of academic and leadership distinction at VMI.
Merit scholarships help VMI attract and retain academically talented and intellectually curious students who help elevate the academic experience of all cadets. These scholarships are highly sought after in the competitive marketplace of college admission and retention
Scout Ripley ’23 came to VMI seeking strong academics, a chance to play Division I lacrosse, and the opportunity to commission into the Marine Corps. He found and embraced all three. As a participant in the Institute Honors program and co-captain of the lacrosse team, Ripley found himself fully immersed in all the Institute has to offer.
As a double major in history and English, Ripley wore academic stars as a cadet and completed two capstone projects, one in each discipline, while also leading the lacrosse team to numerous victories. In October 2022, he received the VMI Keydet Club Three-Legged Stool Award, which recognizes the cadet-athlete who best embodies excellence in academics, leadership, and athletics. Ripley served the Corps as a cadre corporal his 3rd Class year and a platoon sergeant his 2nd Class year.
Ripley’s education at VMI was supported by three scholarships: One for lacrosse, one for the Institute Honors program, and one for the Marine Corps. He’s grateful for all three. “The money that I have to come here is special to me because they could have given it to somebody else,” Ripley stated. “They could have used it and not donated it to VMI. So me being on scholarship is something special because I know when I graduate, the money that was spent on me is used so I can pay it forward to somebody else.”
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