Should this scholarship be awarded?

CDR Laurel Meadows - Probably need more information about the "error" to render an educated opinion, however, based on the sketchy information in the article, my gut reaction is that the Navy should make good on its offer to the student.

If the student meets the qualifications for the scholarship and received it through no deceit/fraud, he should keep it. It sounds like an administrative issue (i.e., notified the wrong person, awarded more than the budget allowed, etc.), which is not the recipient's fault.

Once the whole story is told, one can be in a better position to render an opinion.

Gut reaction. When you make these kind of announcements in Public (as opposed to private notifications), people will make plans accordingly. A Public announcement is a "firm offer" and the student had a pretty good expectation that it wouldn't be rescinded at the last second.

I get clerical errors. They happen. The beauty of the US government, is that we have enough Power & Money to fix them, and then hold accountable the idiot who made them. It shouldn't be the "victim" of them.

If they don't make good on this deal, they are possibly ruining his life. He worked hard to earn the 24k scholarship and that is now lost, because he trusted the Navy would make good on their promise. I really hope someone does the right thing here. It would be terrible to see someone who worked so hard lose everything on the account of someone else's error.