This is where graduating early may have hurt him. Kids who are academically ready for college material are not necessarily ready for pressure and social scene of a college far from home. I went to Caltech. He may be the kind of kid who would thrive there, one who is so academically inclined that the awkward as hell,…
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i have learned autocad, and i prefer solidworks.
next person to tell me what to do in 3....2.....
Hell, Tweet it to Ellen too. She loves these sort of stories.
This is a really good point that we should all repeat whenever it comes up so more high-achieving POC students see it: Your odds of financial aid are actually better the higher you aim. A student like him should be applying to the Ivy League, MIT, CalTech - places with bottomless funds that jump at a chance to snap up…
Not all STEM is created equal. Plenty of biologists and civil engineers don’t make bank.
I was one of the first Covenant Scholars (I was in the pilot year) and it covers EEEEEEEEVERYTHING. Now you still need to pay for books, plus any non-meal-plan food, so you get a work-study job for that (part of the grant package) but your tuition, room, board, fees, meal plan, etc. - all covered.
Not to mention that minimum wage is $7.25, so in order to pay the $23,000 that it costs to go to UNC, you’d have to work one and a half full-time minimum wage jobs (3000+ hours) to pay the full cost.
Yeah, if he had gone to a private college, it probably would’ve been free. Not knocking his choice (I went to all state schools for my education), but the private schools have way better endowments.
Miners.
Yeah. I mean, he has to follow his dreams and go where he wants to go, but from my experience if you are a somewhat exceptional student in somewhat exceptional circumstances, smaller private institutions are better at “making things work” sine I think your case gets a bit more focused attention and there is seemingly…
which is why I call them ladder socialists. They love socialism for themselves, but pull up the ladder for others.
the carolina covenant guarantees you graduate debt free if your parents/guardians are 200% of federal poverty line or less, which seems to apply here. have to graduate in 8 semesters and have a work study job, but there is no application required at all. if you meet the requirements and are accepted to the school,…
Old people are really surprised when you tell them college costs so much. They’re all like “why would you spend that much money?”. Even in-state schools cost 20-25,000 a year to attend, and it’s only increasing. They had it so much easier paying for school and now we’re also burdened with their social security (that…
I just tweeted this young man’s plight to Oprah, Beyonce and CEO/Chairman of Vista Equity Partners to see if they help publicize his plight and are moved to help him monetarily.
This appears to be a GoFundMe page set up for his tuition fund:
This is one of the reasons I read and enjoy the Root.
I’m not on Twitter, but can someone bring this young man to the attention of a few Black celebrities and get him some money? Don’t make me have to figure out Twitter myself...
BTW- To all the ladder socialists and bootstrappers who think Millennials are lazy: UNC Chapel Hill cost $2200 per year (in 2018 dollars) in 1970.
I’m not on Twitter, but can someone bring this young man to the attention of a few Black celebrities and get him some money? Don’t make me have to figure out Twitter myself...