Student GoFundMe accounts for tuition

[Anonymous]

My DC is a junior at a high tuition college. During break he was showing me a number of GoFundMe requests posted by other students, especially seniors, requesting assistance to pay Spring semester's invoice. My DC (whose campus job hours have been drastically cut) had contributed $10 - $20 to accounts of a few students he knew. While I feel bad that students find themselves in this situation, it does not seem right to me to lean on other students to close the funding gap. Anybody else seeing this?

[Anonymous]

I saw a post yesterday for this on one of the college FB groups I'm in

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DC is a junior at a high tuition college. During break he was showing me a number of GoFundMe requests posted by other students, especially seniors, requesting assistance to pay Spring semester's invoice. My DC (whose campus job hours have been drastically cut) had contributed $10 - $20 to accounts of a few students he knew. While I feel bad that students find themselves in this situation, it does not seem right to me to lean on other students to close the funding gap. Anybody else seeing this?

. You don't remember society paying a white girl $36K+ to date a black guy? Her racist parents cut off her tuition and gofundme rescued her:https://www.gofundme.com/f/put-allie-in-college-fight-racism

[Anonymous]

Unfortunate that those students did not go to thier (likely) pretty good instate public school, with its more moderate tuition.

[Anonymous]

A couple of these requests made it to the Parent FB page for my child's college. Then another parent decided to perform a social media deep dive on the requesters and started posting his "findings" which I found to be a breach of the students' privacy. What an awkward situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A couple of these requests made it to the Parent FB page for my child's college. Then another parent decided to perform a social media deep dive on the requesters and started posting his "findings" which I found to be a breach of the students' privacy. What an awkward situation.

+1 Just don't donate. Why would you post findings?

[Anonymous]

People have no shame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunate that those students did not go to thier (likely) pretty good instate public school, with its more moderate tuition.

you're assuming that they could get in. Flagships are often as hard as if not harder to get into than privates outside of the very top schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A couple of these requests made it to the Parent FB page for my child's college. Then another parent decided to perform a social media deep dive on the requesters and started posting his "findings" which I found to be a breach of the students' privacy. What an awkward situation.

If he/she found the stuff on the internet, what privacy are they violating?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunate that those students did not go to thier (likely) pretty good instate public school, with its more moderate tuition.

Kids and I live in DC. Remind me again where my "pretty good instate public school" is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunate that those students did not go to thier (likely) pretty good instate public school, with its more moderate tuition.

Kids and I live in DC. Remind me again where my "pretty good instate public school" is?

I am kind of right there with you, but we do get DC TAG which eases the pain a bit.

[Anonymous]

No shame at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A couple of these requests made it to the Parent FB page for my child's college. Then another parent decided to perform a social media deep dive on the requesters and started posting his "findings" which I found to be a breach of the students' privacy. What an awkward situation.

Without going into specifics, what were - in general - these findings?

[Anonymous]

Could be legit or not. I would not donate because it's not my problem.
To consider donating, I would need to see the student's FAFSA application and if the student is employed. These random money grabs seem like a scam.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A couple of these requests made it to the Parent FB page for my child's college. Then another parent decided to perform a social media deep dive on the requesters and started posting his "findings" which I found to be a breach of the students' privacy. What an awkward situation.

I mean if you are posting on social media asking for money everyone has a right to know(investigate) before donating