<p>Okay, so I'm sure I'm not doing this piece justice, but basically here's a senior who has attended Harvard for four years for FREE, urging fellow students not to contribute to the senior gift financial aid fund because he feels he was slighted as a financial aid student, including suffering such indignities as being asked to write a thank you letter to the donor who made his financial aid possible. Really?</p>
<p>For another take on the subject, here's an opposing piece from a Harvard senior on financial aid who is a co-chair of the senior gift campaign and urges fellow students to contribute to financial aid:</p>
<p>I read the first link…I see nothing wrong with saying thank you. Am I wrong to feel this way? DD has probably gone through 10 or so boxes of thank you cards since freshman year. She has thanked teachers at the end of each school year, the office staff at the school(for always being so helpful), LOR writers, admissions reps who have visited her school, the adcoms that she spoke to at the QuestBridge conference last June…the list goes on and on!</p>
<p>There have been some pretty wonderful unintended consequences from her quick notes of thanks. </p>