Why the Morehead-Cain?
Your son or daughter could go to college anywhere he or she wants to. Why should he or she be interested in the Morehead-Cain?
The Morehead-Cain isn't just a great scholarship to UNC. It isn't even just a great scholarship with great summer internships. The Morehead-Cain is something unique, something powerfully life-changing. The Morehead-Cain expands horizons and cultivates ambition, drive, and wisdom. The Morehead-Cain challenges each Scholar to do better, to do more — to be extraordinary.
The Morehead-Cain is not just about getting a college education. It is a lifelong challenge, and a lifelong honor.
What do Morehead-Cain Scholars get that they couldn't get somewhere else?
- Personal mentoring by experienced staff advisors to nurture growth
and development, independence and confidence.
- The opportunity to be part of the most amazing group of student peers
assembled anywhere in the country. People who will challenge, support,
and inspire.
- Connections in the Morehead Alumni network that will provide invaluable
advice and support during college, and a "foot in the door" afterwards.
- Summer experiences that students could not have access to on their own, even if they had the financial resources. The connections and relationships the Morehead-Cain Foundation has developed over 50 years with international and domestic internship sponsors are an unmatched benefit of the Morehead-Cain.
- The designation of being "a Morehead-Cain Scholar." This name carries
with it all the prestige and distinction of the Rhodes — four years
earlier! Time after time, Morehead Alumni have described it this way:
when people find out you are a Morehead-Cain Scholar, their expectations
of you are raised considerably.
- An unbeatable combination of university and experiential learning
that enhances Morehead-Cain Scholars' maturity, global understanding,
and critical thinking, making them great candidates for the Rhodes and
other prestigious scholarships, graduate and professional schools, and
employment opportunities.
- A college career completely free of financial burden.
As Morehead Alumnus David Gardner, founder of the Motley Fool and author of the best-selling investment guides, said, "Harvard and Yale were easy and predictable. My dad had gone to Harvard, my uncle to Yale, and I had a gaggle of friends who would go on to attend one or the other. I began to picture them as huge crowds of faceless graduates from the Ivys. But how many fewer would earn a Morehead?"
And, most important, the Morehead-Cain Challenge.
The challenge to Create an Extraordinary Life.
