Much has been made of Miss America Nina Davuluri being the first South Asian American Miss America in the history of the pageant.
But according to a blog in the MedPage, perhaps Nina’s bigger accomplishment is that she is raising the bar of the scholarship pageant.
Davuluri aspires to be a doctor in a pageant that in the past has awarded the crown to people who aspire to work in professions that require more personality.
Communications, acting, broadcasting are just a few of the fields past winners have aspired to enter.
One pageant official once even told a reporter that contestants planning to enter image conscious jobs tend to do better in the Miss America pageant.
But this year the pageant seemed dominated by women in the sciences.
You can check out some of their professed chosen careers on the MedPage.
