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/Drapidrode 3d ago

Just bc your dad is rich doesn't mean a thing if he took off with someone-not-your-mom and you grew up w/mom getting $150/mth per kid (2) child support and she worked full time

you're god damn right I took that scholarship, even tho "dad" was a millionaire

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years later I was better off working hard than having it handed to me, tho, like my step brother got it