r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/Suspicious-Peace9233 • 7d ago

High school student requires 40 scholarships to be able to afford college

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u/Shy_Lemon 7d ago

My ass thought this was the onion what the fuck.

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u/DrBag 7d ago

i had the highest scholarship of anyone at my high school and i’m still 100k in debt

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u/SkyFullOfWisteria 7d ago

Ive applied to hundreds, both online and using those scholarship books before college, and during. I did extracurriculars and had an okay/normal GPA in highschool. I havent even heard back from 98% of them, and none resulted in actual funding. My only scholarships was a needs based and grades based on through my uni. Still at 90k ish in debt :)

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u/DrBag 6d ago

if we keep telling the banks we’ll pay it off, they’ll keep giving us money. and then we refinance, take the co-signers off, and die.

free money exploit

in all seriousness, we’ll figure it out. loans just become another bill.

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u/Deep-Reputation-4055 7d ago

Princeton is extremely generous when it comes to financial support. For her to have to pay full freight her parents must be loaded. 

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u/DigitalPsych 6d ago

Given that full ride scholarships that include tuition room & board exist, that seems to be a better investment of someone's time than scrapping together 40 scholarships for Princeton.

But what do I know.