Turning in Someone who falsified/lied to get a scholarship?

[Anonymous]

The child's parents combined income is over $200k a year.

Has anyone been in a situation where they know of a family that lied/falsified/ purposely left out financial data so that they would qualify and receive a large scholarship a one of the District of Columbia's top private institutions? If you did, did you turn them into the school's financial aid office? Any advice?

[Anonymous]

How do you know they lied? They could still get aid at the salary level. Or maybe it's merit aid. It really isn't any of your business.

[Anonymous]

I should of said Financial Aid instead of scholarship.

Yes, I know for a fact the circumstance behind the family receiving the Financial Aid...which is y I asked the quesiton.

[Anonymous]

The school has their tax forms. If there they are fraudulent then you should contact the IRS.

[Anonymous]

None of your business -- you dontl know all of the facts

[Anonymous]

I don't think that you should get involved.

[Anonymous]

You should report them to the FA office.

[Anonymous]

Thanks everyone for your responses.

[Anonymous]

Be careful thinking you know. People often feel pressured to pretend they don't need the aid and they have "gamed" they system somehow when they are outed for receiving aid.

[Anonymous]

And people feel ashamed, so they lie to nosy socialites and pretend to have income they do not have

[Anonymous]

This is so creepy.

We are financial aid recipients at "one of the District of Columbia's top private institutions," although our income doesn't come close to 200K. I don't know how you would lie given that you have to document everything.

Is this your hobby, OP? Did you somehow (how?!) find out that we receive aid and now find yourself obsessed with our family?

I wonder if at back-to-school night you were wondering where I got my respectable-looking shoes and halfway decent suit? Yes, even though we're not rich, I also have to dress up for work. (And I got the whole outfit, minus the underwear, at consignment stores.) Should I wear a burlap sack next time?

Are you fuming that we went to NYC for spring break and that my kids talked excitedly at school about seeing their first Broadway show? (My ILs live there, so we had free housing. Should we always stay in DC and allow ourselves only second-run movies? Should my kids even be allowed to attend non-free events?)

Are you furiously eyeing my iPhone, trying to figure out if I have the latest model? (Of course I don't. I'm sure your third grader's model is more recent than mine.) But I do have to be reachable by clients at all hours, just like you. And I'm still not rich, although I just bet you'd think my profession is "noble" as long as my kids weren't attending your kids' school.

The OP and some of the other FA obsessors on this board have to get a grip. Schools provide financial aid to families they want to have at the school. Clearly the school saw something appealing in my kids (and perhaps even in their not-rich parents!), since if they looked at our occupations, they could have guessed that we'd be applying for aid. Many families probably assume, once they've seen where we live, that we receive aid. For the most part, I don't care. But people like the OP make me feel dirty and horrible. I think I need a shower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is so creepy.

We are financial aid recipients at "one of the District of Columbia's top private institutions," although our income doesn't come close to 200K. I don't know how you would lie given that you have to document everything.

Is this your hobby, OP? Did you somehow (how?!) find out that we receive aid and now find yourself obsessed with our family?

I wonder if at back-to-school night you were wondering where I got my respectable-looking shoes and halfway decent suit? Yes, even though we're not rich, I also have to dress up for work. (And I got the whole outfit, minus the underwear, at consignment stores.) Should I wear a burlap sack next time?

Are you fuming that we went to NYC for spring break and that my kids talked excitedly at school about seeing their first Broadway show? (My ILs live there, so we had free housing. Should we always stay in DC and allow ourselves only second-run movies? Should my kids even be allowed to attend non-free events?)

Are you furiously eyeing my iPhone, trying to figure out if I have the latest model? (Of course I don't. I'm sure your third grader's model is more recent than mine.) But I do have to be reachable by clients at all hours, just like you. And I'm still not rich, although I just bet you'd think my profession is "noble" as long as my kids weren't attending your kids' school.

The OP and some of the other FA obsessors on this board have to get a grip. Schools provide financial aid to families they want to have at the school. Clearly the school saw something appealing in my kids (and perhaps even in their not-rich parents!), since if they looked at our occupations, they could have guessed that we'd be applying for aid. Many families probably assume, once they've seen where we live, that we receive aid. For the most part, I don't care. But people like the OP make me feel dirty and horrible. I think I need a shower.

Well said!!!

[Anonymous]

OP, do this and you are wrong, and they can sue you for actionable slander. And you'd lose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so creepy.

We are financial aid recipients at "one of the District of Columbia's top private institutions," although our income doesn't come close to 200K. I don't know how you would lie given that you have to document everything.

Is this your hobby, OP? Did you somehow (how?!) find out that we receive aid and now find yourself obsessed with our family?

I wonder if at back-to-school night you were wondering where I got my respectable-looking shoes and halfway decent suit? Yes, even though we're not rich, I also have to dress up for work. (And I got the whole outfit, minus the underwear, at consignment stores.) Should I wear a burlap sack next time?

Are you fuming that we went to NYC for spring break and that my kids talked excitedly at school about seeing their first Broadway show? (My ILs live there, so we had free housing. Should we always stay in DC and allow ourselves only second-run movies? Should my kids even be allowed to attend non-free events?)

Are you furiously eyeing my iPhone, trying to figure out if I have the latest model? (Of course I don't. I'm sure your third grader's model is more recent than mine.) But I do have to be reachable by clients at all hours, just like you. And I'm still not rich, although I just bet you'd think my profession is "noble" as long as my kids weren't attending your kids' school.

The OP and some of the other FA obsessors on this board have to get a grip. Schools provide financial aid to families they want to have at the school. Clearly the school saw something appealing in my kids (and perhaps even in their not-rich parents!), since if they looked at our occupations, they could have guessed that we'd be applying for aid. Many families probably assume, once they've seen where we live, that we receive aid. For the most part, I don't care. But people like the OP make me feel dirty and horrible. I think I need a shower.

Well said!!!

You just expressed what I could never put in writing myself. Thanks for posting this.

[Anonymous]

OP I think your valuable time would be better spent heading over to a DCPS and investigating "MD scofflaws". You could track license plates, follow cars to see where they really live. Go get em....