You are a dips**t if you somehow construed this as some how saying he was offered a scholarship or that he applied.
Dr Carson has never said he applied to WP. What he said is that he was introduced to representatives from WP and they encouraged him to apply.
Since WP does not charge tuition, you are actually joining the service, it is easy to see where even an extremely intelligent 18 year old from inner city Detroit would hear no tuition and think it equals a scholarship. Dr. Carson never said he applied to WP, saying he always wanted to go into medicine.