She sounds like a manufactured high achiever with not a single original thought ever
https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2022/03/duke-university-undergraduate-young-trustee-finalists-priya-parkash-board-of-trustees
She majors in exactly what you are told you should, spouts the most generic goo about “diversity” and everything else. In 10 years of teaching at a school similar to Duke (but better ranked) I have only met one or two such vacuous nothings.

Anonymous wrote:Genuine impoverished teens don't pump out essay after essay of university-level prose and don't speak crisp King's English like polished gunners who clearly spent years around high SES peers and obsessed with debate and Model UN. And they don't usually have a set of $10,000 orthodontist-perfected teeth. The signs are always so obvious these are born rich scammers, which leads me to believe scholarship and fellowship committees, universities, and university faculty mentors are all complicit in the fraud.

Which is just to say, she comes from a school that is deep untapped vein of full pay students, that Duke wants. They tossed out a scholarship four years ago, and probably have already remade that money ten-fold. Not a scam. The nation of d-bags was not built in a day.

Anonymous wrote:Genuine impoverished teens don't pump out essay after essay of university-level prose and don't speak crisp King's English like polished gunners who clearly spent years around high SES peers and obsessed with debate and Model UN. And they don't usually have a set of $10,000 orthodontist-perfected teeth. The signs are always so obvious these are born rich scammers, which leads me to believe scholarship and fellowship committees, universities, and university faculty mentors are all complicit in the fraud.

Duke offers some merit full-ride scholarships that have nothing to do with financial need. Take a look at the list of scholarships on their website.

Genuine impoverished teens don't pump out essay after essay of university-level prose and don't speak crisp King's English like polished gunners who clearly spent years around high SES peers and obsessed with debate and Model UN. And they don't usually have a set of $10,000 orthodontist-perfected teeth. The signs are always so obvious these are born rich scammers, which leads me to believe scholarship and fellowship committees, universities, and university faculty mentors are all complicit in the fraud.

Anonymous wrote:I'm beginning to think no genuine poor kids get into elite colleges, it's almost always elbowy rich kid scammers playing some angle pretending to be poor and/or first generation and/or estranged from high caste parent(s).

Yes - remember Varsity Blues where hundreds of parents are investigated and prosecuted for cheating/bribing their way into top colleges. Despicable behavior by rich scammers.

Anonymous wrote:She can afford PR team so she scammed for the scholarship like other girl from UPenn.

Yep.

Anonymous wrote:I'm beginning to think no genuine poor kids get into elite colleges, it's almost always elbowy rich kid scammers playing some angle pretending to be poor and/or first generation and/or estranged from high caste parent(s).

Same. And also admits in general. So much lying and cheating going on. But as long as these schools keep believing these BS resumes and never verify anything, their universities will be filled with the worst of humanity.

I'm beginning to think no genuine poor kids get into elite colleges, it's almost always elbowy rich kid scammers playing some angle pretending to be poor and/or first generation and/or estranged from high caste parent(s).

Anonymous wrote:She can afford PR team so she scammed for the scholarship like other girl from UPenn.

What kind of scholarship did she get? Duke has different kinds of full-ride scholarships: solely merit-based, solely for first generation college students, solely for black students, etc.

She can afford PR team so she scammed for the scholarship like other girl from UPenn.

What an odd comment by the PP. Serious paranoia.

Sounds like her PR team found this thread…

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Anonymous wrote:https://pages.facebook.com/NixorCollege/photos/a.10153739091438945/10156384735678945/?type=3&source=48

she was on scholarship

But was it need based?

There is little to no merit aid from Duke.

A quick google search and speculation should answer that question. The school is in Karachi, Pakistan. Probably a prep school for high achieving kids. A lot of top schools give out aid to foreign kids to come study here (not that I'm OK with that in principle). It is merit-based aid. Must be a very smart girl. Based on her non-Muslim name, fair to say she "escaped" a life of religious discrimination 'back home'.

This is probably a good life lesson for her and for all future commencement speakers. Laugh and move on..

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Anonymous wrote:Who paid for her college? Duke cost of attendance is approx $80,000 a year, so that's over $300,000 for a bachelor's. Who paid for it?

She may have gotten financial aid and/or taken out loans. Not sure this is the crux of the issue.

If another rich girl stole over $300,000 in college aid and awards intended for actual low-means needy students, that actually is a very serious issue. What happens if you steal $300,000 from your job? You're taken out in handcuffs.

How do you know she was a rich girl? Even if she was, I don't think there's a lot Duke can do about it at this point.

Her secondary school's facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/NixorCollege/photos/a.10153739091438945/10156384735678945/?type=3 says:

Congratulations to our student, Priya Parkash, for being accepted to Duke University, Class of 2022, with a $76,000 scholarship per year!

We wish Priya the very best of luck - she has made the Nixor Community proud!