The question is optional, and Elmhurst is a private school, though it probably receives some sort of tax funding. Whichever, I would not morally object to some rich old female scientist endowing a scholarship for girls going into science. Which sets a precedent for me in terms of moral judgment. Legally I can't see it being my business unless taxes pay for it, morally I recognize grounds even in modern times for directing aid to someone on grounds other than strictly scholastic merit, so I don't think orientation would be an unfair one. That said, we are going to have to revisit a lot of this stuff eventually, we'd all be outraged if the KKK offered a white male only scholarship, fundamentally there's little difference here. A private entity has setup a scholarship that can bypass a scholastically superior student for another on grounds of a trait, and that's a potentially gray area at best, again morally not legally speaking.