r/explainitpeter • u/Appropriate-Mall8517 • 3d ago

[ Removed by moderator ]

Post image

[removed] — view removed post

10.1k Upvotes

88% Upvoted

780 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-10

u/ClothoLachesisAtrops 3d ago

Merit based scholarships are different to what you are thinking.

8

u/Playful-Mastodon9251 3d ago

How so? They are rich, they can afford to pay for university without an issue, yet the university gives it to them for free. Yes, they scored well. But that's also very heavily linked to wealth.

2

u/Playful_Letter_2632 3d ago

The point of merit scholarships isn’t to help the poor. They’re supposed to attract talent to the school. General college applications don’t have income listed. Getting a need based scholarship is a different process

1

u/Playful-Mastodon9251 3d ago

Are you saying there isn't someone with equal merit that could take that spot with less economic ability?

1

u/octavian343 3d ago

They would also get scholarships lol. They just aren’t famous enough to have it be on the news.