GAPAN Scholarships - Go for it!
I can only agree with the comments made by zk-pontius - I won an FI Scholarship in 2001, and I've since enjoyed a successful instructing career; I never had a private education, I went to a state school in New Zealand. I've never involved myself in charities, I was too busy living life, and I absolutely do not build paper airplanes, I only fly the real ones. And Airfoil, I'm neither a UK national. What seems to matter with regard to GAPAN Scholarships is your enthusiasm about flying, and what you as an individual can contribute to the aviation world, with your ideas and vision.