Core Values Merit Scholarship
Core Values Merit Scholarship
The Core Values Scholar Program seeks to recognize bright, motivated students who demonstrate qualities that will add meaning and vitality to Derryfield’s Core Values. Applicants must complete both the admission and merit applications by January 15 to be considered.
Grant Value: $16,000
Number of Core Values Scholars: Up to two each year
Eligibility: All new students applying to Derryfield are eligible.
Select one of the following prompts:
Option 1
Describe a personal accomplishment, quality, or experience where you were at your best. What about this accomplishment, quality, or experience makes you proud?
Option 2
Describe a personal experience where you were a purposeful member of a community. What about this experience made you proud?
If using the Core Values below helps to articulate your experience, you may incorporate them. Your essay should be typed and uploaded as a .pdf format (minimum of 250-word response).
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Aim High
Young people achieve their best in a culture of high expectations and encouragement.
Balance
We offer inspiring academic, artistic, and athletic opportunities, promoting the development of healthy habits of mind, body, and spirit, and the skill to balance creative tension.
Caring
We are a community of individuals who care for one another. We demonstrate this through kindness and nurturing relationships among all members of the Derryfield family.
Character
We actively cultivate respect, integrity, compassion, and perseverance in our community members.
Community
We seek a diverse community defined and sustained by close relationships, social interdependence, and service.
Families
We embrace the family’s role in the life of our day school, celebrating collaboration between home and school.
Individuality
We encourage young people to grow as unique individuals through the discovery of new passions and a love for learning, self-knowledge, critical inquiry, and reflection.
By submitting this form, I understand that all offers are conditional; pending receipt of final transcripts showing work and behavior comparable in quality to that upon which the offer was based, as well as honorable completion of the academic year; that the information submitted here and on my application is complete and accurate; and that the written answers and essay submitted reflect work produced by me, unedited by others.