<p>Not sure if this a true parent forum subject or if it should go in the cafe. An acquaintance recently posted an online fund raising request for $20,000 for college tuition on a facebook page. </p>
<p>Has anyone seen this before? She presently attends a private school with a 20k per year tuition. If the child has the GPA that she states, she has free tuition at her state flagship. She wants to attend a school with a 45k tuition. </p>
<p>I'm flabbergasted by the level of delusion.</p>
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<p>I’m flabbergasted by the level of chutzpah.</p>
<p>I find that unsettling. Clearly the college is not affordable if the family is doing this. </p>
<p>In most states, you have to get some kind of permit from the state for fundraising. Wonder if they did this??</p>
<p>Do they plan to do this for all four years? Sorry, I would not contribute.</p>
<p>I was going to cut and paste her full request and delete some details but it was still easily searchable in Google. She’s trying raise money through a website like kickstarter. I feel as though I should protect her identity even though it is out in cyberland for all to see. Clearly she is not getting good advice from her parents.</p>
<p>Apparently there are several web sites set up to do college fundraising. </p>
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<p>Also flabbergasted but on a level it doesn’t surprise me. We get crowd funding requests from kids (whose parents make more than we do) to help pay for summer baseball leagues etc. When we scrape to do things for our kids and are doing things that are less expensive it seems pretty presumptuous. If they’re making an Olympic bid it might be different - but for regular stuff it still amazes me.</p>
<p>In general there are too many people and groups trying to raise money for everything. Kids sports, kids going on school Disney vacations, kids clubs at school. It has gotten to the point that you can’t head into a store without being bombarded with someone asking for money or trying to sell you something you don’t need or want to help their cause. </p>
<p>When those projects were to help “other people” it was one thing, but it somehow doesn’t sit right when it is to help themselves do something they or their families should pay for on their own if they want their kid to participate. </p>
<p>No comments yet on the impact these funds have on financial aid.</p>
<p>If the student is on FA wouldn’t most schools count these funds dollar for dollar against the student’s total aid package?</p>
<p>Just because they ask, doesn’t mean you have to give.</p>
<p>wow- hard to believe! It will be interesting to see how successful she is. </p>
<p>I can’t imagine asking other people to fund my child’s education (other than scholarships, of course). And I would never contribute to the same (unless it was for a special underprivileged child for whom college, at all, would not be possible). Shameless, IMO. </p>
<p>Hmmm…while I haven’t seen this for tuition, I’ve seen this for friends raising money for their study abroad or mission trip. I don’t really know what to think, but I do know kids can get a nice chunk of change from these things. </p>
<p>At least contributing to the online solicitation is voluntary. </p>
<p>As a taxpayer, it’s not voluntary. I have to pay even if my kid doesn’t go to State U.</p>
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<p>What’s worse is if your kid doesn’t get accepted to the State U you had to pay for. You get all the benefits of paying and nothing else.</p>
<p>I felt the same way when the state fixed a road I never drive on. </p>
<p>It would be more like you would like to drive on that road, but you are not allowed to. But please pay so that your neighbor can.</p>
<p>It’s ok. This analogy really doesn’t need to go any further…</p>
<p>Emily Post’s head must be spinning again as she hears of these kinds of fundraising efforts.</p>
<p>But since there are people who don’t have any qualms about begging for other people’s money, wouldn’t it be a better, and less etiquette-violating, to create yet another website for people to post their requests for tuition donations? One site collects $2.75 per donation and another takes a 4% cut. That is where the money really is, but, of course, it would take some work to build such a website and manage it. One thing common to all begging, whether for pocket change or tuition dollars, seems to be an aversion to work.</p>