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…and will make damn sure you stay in your boring science and math classes…
…but the utter thrill of manipulating financial aid loopholes remains. Go agency!
Meanwhile, GS students, as always, find a “nontraditional” way to cheat the system
And, oh right…don’t forget to resist Man Law…or expansion, because of…uh, yeah, you’ve read this all before
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@NTS Because GS classes are small, there can’t be more than like 5 or 6 married 22 yr olds in the school. Would be worth the 11,000 for the office to track him down, if he isn’t expelled or suspended for breaking some academic code
@doubt that shame marriages are against an academic code.
@correction sham
@Non trad swindler He must still be getting $$$ from his family, no way can he live off $8/hr in NYC. He’s retarded for having this run in the Spec, BTW
@Reader Do you think it possible for anyone to come up with a more shrill and overwrought response to the possibility of Columbia expanding? The article started with a conciliatory acknowledgement of the need for the expansion, but then utterly failed to suggest any alternative means for doing so other than the ones it condemns. And there’s wholly unsubstantiated speculation, to boot!
@Aide The David story was extremely poorly fact-checked, and it appears there might have been a typo or two. Daily intake really went from $15,000 per store to $500? Are we sure there’s not an extra zero in there? $15,000/day is pretty damn good for selling snow globes.
Also, Columbia does not treat a $90 payment per week that is “salary” significantly differently from any other transfer; a fixed percentage of student income is expected to be used for the student contribution, regardless of the source. Moreover, this article contains enough identifying information for the financial aid office to easily punish the student if they wanted to, which in any case the family’s machinations don’t seem to deserve, since I doubt they helped much in the overall package at all. What I find annoying is the kid’s scheming attitude, when he could have just taken a seat with a financial aid officer and explained his situation.
@No thanks The Man Law commercials aren’t funny and Miller Lite isn’t potable.
@spelunker http://www.columbiatunnels.org
@Anonymous I love that some opinion columnist complained about the lack of Asian-American studies classes in the spring, failing to note that the English Department is offering “Asian American Literature and Culture.” Paging a factchecker!
@money, not the sham They’ll go through his file with a fine-toothed comb after reading that story. Speaking as someone who barely scrapes by on full-time $20/hour at GS + loans, loans, loans; there is no way he is surviving without help from mommy and daddy.
Unless he has some fat inheritance that he’s living off of and he’s so cheap that he’d fake a marriage (risking potential alimony payments from a divorce) to scam GS for a 11,000 a year for two years.
Maybe the marriage isn’t technically against the code (possibly against the honor code) but lying about your finances will get you cut off from FAFSA, GS scholarships etc. Anyone who’s willing to fake a marriage will go pretty far to fuck the school, and I’m sure they know it.