Postcards and letters are nice, but...

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>I don’t mind a guy trying to scare up a little extra cash. Hell, I do that for a living.</p>

<p>However, when you start a post by comparing Columbia to Harvard and Princeton unfavorably, then claiming that Columbia is not as “rich”, and then pointing out you received a prestigious scholarship and asking why you can’t get more money, you have to expect a little flack. Your post makes you seem, at best, spoiled.</p>

<p>If you wanted to ask how to get some extra dough, you could have done it without the preamble.</p>

<p>You could do what I did when I was a senior to get money: get a minimum wage job at a lunch counter after school. Quit expecting people to hand you things. If you can’t figure out how to earn $250, you probably belong at Harvard.</p>

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<p>Princeton is pretty close to NYC. go there while visiting princeton</p>

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<p>Okay, so let me get this straight: I should expect “flack” for stating that Columbia and Harvard offered to pay my travel costs whereas Columbia didn’t. I should expect “flack” for stating that Harvard and Princeton have significantly larger endowments than Columbia. I should expect “flack” for expressing my confusion as to why Columbia aggressively recruits top applicants in some respects but not in other, perhaps more effective respects. I cannot control how you interpret my posts; all I can do is correct you when you accuse me of arrogance, ungratefulness, laziness, etc. And I have done just that, yet you continue to assume bad faith. You continue to cling to what I have told you are misinterpretations, and you use them as bases for personal attacks.</p>

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<p>Have some humility, for God’s sake. One quick glance at my post history would show you that I’ve worked 25 hours a week, most weeks, for the past two-and-a-half years. So why am I strapped for a few hundred dollars? Because I have to use my earnings to support myself and my mentally ill mother who can’t support herself. </p>

<p>So spare me the “hard work and thrift” ******** and get to know the world a bit more. I’ve had it with you.</p>

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<p>I believe you are both taking this way too seriously.</p>

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<p>maybe they just don’t care about you that much</p>

<p>i got my ticket paid for</p>

<p>i got handwritten notes alongside my congratulations letters</p>

<p>they probably just don’t care dude. they have other applicants they are recruiting :p</p>

<p>edit: oh god it has become one of those threads… i’ll take my leave now… good day</p>

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<p>I didn’t even have to ask and they sent me an offer to pay for my visit to campus with my acceptance packet (and yet…I also got all the other notes, etc that you’ve gotten).</p>

<p>I dealt with my travel plans through Ms. Thompson, so you should call her. Even when a school has “run out of travel funds,” they can still probably accommodate you. The same happened with me and Duke, so I just called my admissions officer, and he got me a $300 reimbursement.</p>

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Thanks to a bump of a 3-year-old thread by Love Me97 via a completely irrelevant post, I just came across the name:</p>

<p>[Old</a> Campus](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/members/old-campus-83214.html]Old”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/members/old-campus-83214.html)</p>

<p>I expect that if you read his posting history you’ll see he’s probably a strong contender for the title if not the favorite.</p>