"Help!! I want to go to Notre Dame!"

DaemonSeid · #1 03-17-2009, 06:16 PM

Talk about pressed...

What do you all think??

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Now...ummm why doesn't she just apply for some scholarships?

Is there something I am not seeing that is keeping her from going???

knight_shadow · #2 03-17-2009, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Talk about pressed...

What do you all think??

link

Now...ummm why doesn't she just apply for some scholarships?

Is there something I am not seeing that is keeping her from going???

Hmm. In the time it took her to set all that up, she could have hit up the FAFSA or Fastweb.

I guess since everyone else is pimping themselves out for donations (octo-mom, the girl selling her virginity, etc.), she's doing it too...

DaemonSeid · #3 03-17-2009, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Hmm. In the time it took her to set all that up, she could have hit up the FAFSA or Fastweb.

I guess since everyone else is pimping themselves out for donations (octo-mom, the girl selling her virginity, etc.), she's doing it too...

Well if she sells her virginity, has eight kids and refers herself to Dr. Phil, she can go for free...

She should be selling shares of her future earnings once she graduates.

AOII Angel · #4 03-17-2009, 06:31 PM

There are these things called loans....

AGDee · #5 03-17-2009, 06:33 PM

If the girl gets people to just give her money that way, then so be it! It doesn't hurt to ask, right? If people are dumb enough to donate, that's their problem.

UofISigKap · #6 03-17-2009, 06:40 PM

In the newspaper article link it says, "She estimates her costs to attend Notre Dame will be $46,000 per year. She said she's applied for at least 10 scholarships and is waiting to hear if she will receive any of them." She also said, "if she ends up attending U-M rather than Notre Dame, she will return all checks sent to her to attend Notre Dame. Notre Dame is considerably more expensive than U-M."

There definitely was some bashing of her application essay on there too. Did I miss the peers = piers error?

ETA: "It was so much fun to sing with my piers and special needs children, while making the people at the nursing home happy."

PM_Mama00 · #7 03-17-2009, 07:35 PM

Why doesn't she just do what Rudy did?

Rudy. Rudy. Rudy. Rudy.

(or just go to the best school in the Big 10 division... GO BLUE!)

knight_shadow · #8 03-17-2009, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

Why doesn't she just do what Rudy did?

Rudy. Rudy. Rudy. Rudy.

(or just go to the best school in the Big 10 division... GO BLUE!)

I nominate this for GC quote of the year.

RU OX Alum · #9 03-17-2009, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by AOII Angel

There are these things called loans....

I was about to say...

agzg · #10 03-17-2009, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by AOII Angel

There are these things called loans....

There have been some problems with student loans lately - live-in had a friend whose loans fell through for the semester and he had to pull out of school.

Stafford loans are having real problems.

AOII Angel · #11 03-17-2009, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by agzg

There have been some problems with student loans lately - live-in had a friend whose loans fell through for the semester and he had to pull out of school.

Stafford loans are having real problems.

There are some reports of difficulties with loans, but from what I've heard on NPR, students are supposed to be able to still get loans pretty easily.

nittanyalum · #12 03-17-2009, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

(or just go to the best school in the Big 10 division... GO BLUE!)

Boo.

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Originally Posted by knight_shadow

I nominate this for GC quote of the year.

And double boo.

Oh, and on topic, I find the whole website idea spectacularly tacky. Go in debt like most of the world. And if you don't get the loans, then too bad so sad, people have dealt with that for decades and "settle" for what they can afford. We have to stop raising kids who expect what they want to just be handed to them because they ask for it and want it, sheesh.

knight_shadow · #13 03-17-2009, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by nittanyalum

Boo.

And double boo.

Haterrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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Oh, and on topic, I find the whole website idea spectacularly tacky. Go in debt like most of the world. And if you don't get the loans, then too bad so sad, people have dealt with that for decades and "settle" for what they can afford. We have to stop raising kids who expect what they want to just be handed to them because they ask for it and want it, sheesh.

Agreed.

texas*princess · #14 03-17-2009, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by UofISigKap

ETA: "It was so much fun to sing with my piers and special needs children, while making the people at the nursing home happy."

Hmmm maybe she should take some time out from her diff-e-q classes and take an English class instead

ETA: If she really is so smart, she'd make her domain registration private. It's only like $7/yr and it protects all your personal information. But maybe she really is strapped for cash

ASTalumna06 · #15 03-17-2009, 10:38 PM

As someone, in response to an article about her, so eloquently put it... maybe she should visit www.GetAJobLikeEveryoneElse.com.

For a girl who's so incredibly smart, this seems like a really dumb way of going about this. She claims she's applied for scholarships.. so why not wait to see how much money she gets from those? And she can take out loans and make her way through college the same way the majority of us do.

If everything was as easy as, "I'll make a website so I can get what I want," everyone and their mother would be creating new websites everyday. And why anyone would send her significant amounts of money with the way the economy is, and with their own loans and/or kids' tuition to pay for, I would be very surprised.