Excitement was in the air last night as we kicked off our second Batten Honors College competition at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center. We started this process with 30,000 names and narrowed it down to 71 prospective students competing for 20 full-tuition Batten Fellows and 20 Shumadine Scholars. Collectively, this impressive group has a grade point average of 4.07 on a 4.0 scale, an average SAT score of 1320, and an average ACT score of 29. The competition runs through Saturday.