I got a scholarship because my favorite teacher died during my senior year of highschool. It would have been pretty cool if it wasn't for the whole death thing.
Now what I would greatly enjoy getting a scholarship for is eating pancakes. I've got some pancakes right here, homemade with chocolate chips and (also homemade) strawberry jam and I tell you it is the bee's knees. Just making pancakes of this quality is scholarship-worthy in my book, perhaps even Nobel Prize worthy.