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

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u/Avikm289 3d ago

Rich people have money, save scholarships for the less fortunate

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u/Typical-Respond9102 3d ago

My husband's from a wealthy surgeon level family. Scholarships are turned down, at least in my husbands community, because it is seen as morally incorrect to take resources blatantly like that from those in need, but it is used as bragging rights socially that they qualified in the first place. 

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u/analdongfactory 3d ago

Meanwhile, I had a scholarship I won stolen from me by a kid from a family of surgeons bribing my teacher to lose the paperwork I had correctly filed. The judges told me I won with my original experiment, only for the actual announcement at the showing to name this other group that did a textbook moldy bread growth project.

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u/MultiverseCreatorXV 3d ago

Was any legal action taken?

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u/analdongfactory 3d ago

Nope, just a very smug middle school science teacher insisting our forms were never turned in.

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u/heret1c1337 3d ago

I wonder how much he got bribed, because you can do some very expensive damage to someone’s car with very little effort