Turns out suing your parents does pay off

[whoisjohngalt]

nypost.com/2014/04/02/teen-who-sued-parents-lands-56k-scholarship/

And I am not even going to comment that it was MA school.   I already have too many issues with MA

[chiver78]

that's not a public school though....?

[Shooby]

Wow. How ridiculous.

[Shooby]

But why am I not surprised?

[whoisjohngalt]

Apr 2, 2014 11:46:10 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

that's not a public school though....?

I don't know.  I honestly never heard of that particular one.

[Deleted]

Apr 2, 2014 11:47:33 GMT -5 whoisjohngalt said:

Apr 2, 2014 11:46:10 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

that's not a public school though....?

I don't know.  I honestly never heard of that particular one.

Maybe the college's $56k is paying off. 

[chiver78]

Apr 2, 2014 11:47:33 GMT -5 whoisjohngalt said:

Apr 2, 2014 11:46:10 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

that's not a public school though....?

I don't know.  I honestly never heard of that particular one.

I have, it's in Springfield. I didn't realize they had an undergrad program, most of what I know about the school is that it's got a pretty decent law program.

[souldoubt]

The main thing that sticks out to me in the story isn't the scholarship it's the fact that the article said she doesn't need her parents money yet it's only 30% of the total cost for 4 years.  She's still going to need to come up with 128K if she goes to that school.  

[mollyanna58]

It says she's probably getting 30% of the annual tuition and room & board costs.  Wonder where the rest is coming from.

[Deleted]

The BFF's Dad? 

[lexxy703]

Way to reward outrageous behavior & entitlement. 

[Deleted]

I believe her parents said that she was a good student who had applied to colleges before the lawsuit.  I don't think the lawsuit had anything to do with her scholarship.

[lynnerself]

Apr 2, 2014 12:01:28 GMT -5 @beerwench said:

I believe her parents said that she was a good student who had applied to colleges before the lawsuit.  I don't think the lawsuit had anything to do with her scholarship.

I agree.  It's not that big or unusual scholarship for a small private liberal arts school.

DD got $72000 on just her grades for a similar school.

[Lizard Queen]

-idunno-DH and I "won" $5000 off a sunroom. Seems to me that they just offered us a nice coupon, but we'd still have to shell out probably $15000 to get it. This sounds like the same thing. She still needs to shell out a big chunk to the school, unless sharing a dorm room and eating cafeteria food Costs $30000 for the school year.

[alabamagal]

Apr 2, 2014 12:10:05 GMT -5 lynnerself said:

Apr 2, 2014 12:01:28 GMT -5 @beerwench said:

I believe her parents said that she was a good student who had applied to colleges before the lawsuit.  I don't think the lawsuit had anything to do with her scholarship.

I agree.  It's not that big or unusual scholarship for a small private liberal arts school.

DD got $72000 on just her grades for a similar school.

Yeah, it's not that big of a deal, and probably has nothing to do with her lawsuit. It is only partial scholarship.  Looks like just about 50% of the tuition, room and board extra.

My DD received 90% scholarship to a private school (worth $85k over 4years) and a full scholarship to public school.

[Tiny]

Is this really a 'reward' though? From what I hear from parents/kids going thru the 'getting into college' phase of life - it's a months long process which I'm sure was started well before the silly girl sued her parents. The girl was already on the 'getting into a college' path - good acedemic grades, extra curriculars, etc...

I suspect she would have gotten the scholarship with or without the hoopla about suing her parents.

I'm probably sure that whatever school offered her the scholarship didn't really have someone in charge going - "uh oh.. there's a soon to be applying to college kid being controversial all over the news! I better get Smithers to make sure that if she's in the tens of thousands of applications to this school, that her application gets tossed out - we wouldn't want her in our school"

I'm betting the school that gave her the application isn't gonna be ready for any media storm - since they probably didn't realize they were giving HER a scholarship.


I also wonder where she's gonna come up with the rest of the money she needs to attend that particular school... sounds like she needs another 100K plus to do it.

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Apr 2, 2014 13:05:01 GMT -5 alabamagal said:

Apr 2, 2014 12:10:05 GMT -5 lynnerself said:

I agree.  It's not that big or unusual scholarship for a small private liberal arts school.

DD got $72000 on just her grades for a similar school.

Yeah, it's not that big of a deal, and probably has nothing to do with her lawsuit. It is only partial scholarship.  Looks like just about 50% of the tuition, room and board extra.

My DD received 90% scholarship to a private school (worth $85k over 4years) and a full scholarship to public school.

My niece received $21K/year for 4 years to the college she applied to.  It's a local college, and if she lived at home and commuted, she'd only have to come up with another $10K/year.  I don't think that that's going to happen though.

[hoops902]

What does suing her parents have anything to do with getting a scholarship to attend a school?  She likely would have gotten this either way, therefore I'm not sure how suing her parents is "paying off". 

It's no different than me burning leaves today and getting a raise at my job tomorrow.  Burning leaves didn't "pay off" because I got a raise.  One thing is not related to the other.

[NastyWoman]

Just wait until she gets caught being falling down drunk or something against the CoC on campus.  She'll sue the school for killing of her dreams if she gets expelled (yea I know -> more than a little cynicism here)

[mollyanna58]

Lots of kids get caught falling down drunk at college - isn't that part of the college experience? 

Let's wish this girl and her family the best, and hope we never hear about any of them again.

[muttleynfelix]

What is a BME Major?

[Jake 48]

Apr 2, 2014 11:51:24 GMT -5 mollyanna58 said:

It says she's probably getting 30% of the annual tuition and room & board costs.  Wonder where the rest is coming from.

IMO, she is a douche canoe, so she can always hook.

[Shooby]

I would hope at SOME point in her life that the realization hits her. That she was a total and complete selfish brat. Oh, and daughter just like her might be just the ticket! lol

[mollyanna58]

Apr 2, 2014 18:09:25 GMT -5 Jake 48 said:

Apr 2, 2014 11:51:24 GMT -5 mollyanna58 said:

It says she's probably getting 30% of the annual tuition and room & board costs.  Wonder where the rest is coming from.

IMO, she is a douche canoe, so she can always hook.

[973beachbum]

Apr 2, 2014 15:56:14 GMT -5 muttleynfelix said:

What is a BME Major?

My first thought was bio medical engineering. 

as Lena would say though I have been wrong before.

[Virgil Showlion]

Apr 2, 2014 11:59:52 GMT -5 lexxy703 said:

Way to reward outrageous behavior & entitlement. 

It says the award was for academic merit. It almost certainly had nothing to do with her lawsuit, and I doubt the school even knew about her legal escapades.

The lawsuit was dropped, hence unless it somehow contributed to improving her academic standing, it didn't pay off.

Hence we have a rebellious, malcontent teenage girl with a drinking problem and/or eating disorder, alienated from her parents and soon to be $50K in debt, tied to a boyfriend whose parents were willing to bankroll a lawsuit against their son's girlfriend's parents.

I'm not seeing a lot of future happiness in my crystal ball.

[mollyanna58]

Apr 2, 2014 19:16:26 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Apr 2, 2014 11:59:52 GMT -5 lexxy703 said:

Hence we have a rebellious, malcontent teenage girl with a drinking problem and/or eating disorder, alienated from her parents and soon to be $50K in debt, tied to a boyfriend whose parents were willing to bankroll a lawsuit against their son's girlfriend's parents.

Her parents didn't approve of her boyfriend, but it was her girlfriend's parents were bankrolling the lawsuit.

[Virgil Showlion]

Apr 2, 2014 19:28:58 GMT -5 mollyanna58 said:

Apr 2, 2014 19:16:26 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Hence we have a rebellious, malcontent teenage girl with a drinking problem and/or eating disorder, alienated from her parents and soon to be $50K in debt, tied to a boyfriend whose parents were willing to bankroll a lawsuit against their son's girlfriend's parents.

Her parents didn't approve of her boyfriend, but it was her girlfriend's parents were bankrolling the lawsuit.

Ah.

[Tennesseer]

Apr 2, 2014 14:46:21 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

Just wait until she gets caught being falling down drun or something against the CoC on campus.  She'll sue the school for killing of her dreams if she gets expelled (yea I know -> more than a little cynicism here)

I went to a junior high school across the street ftom Western New England University.  Back then ìt was called Western New England College.  Not a very big campus.  More city residents as students than anything else.