Millions of talented college students across the country often are unable to attend some college because of the lack of availability of financial aid. All too often, many of our own are denied aid when such aid is readily given to foreign students.
Can we view this UCLA scholarship as a "microcosm" or example of the kind of discretion allowed educational institutions when dispensing student aid?
Please tell us how the FAFSA (Federal Application For Student Aid) comes into play. I know that it is an absolute requirement for every student, despite income, to complete the application prior to receiving any financial aid. It is also my understanding that colleges and universities can grant scholarships,etc., regardless of individual need. Are individual institutions limited in the amount of federal aid they receive and can dispense to its applicants? If federal aid made available per institution is limited for whatever reason, do you exercise discretion when granting such individual scholarships, knowing you have other talented students of far greater need based on their FAFSA, that will not be able to attend because of a lack of monetary assistance?
What manner of young man can it be who drives a Maybach given to him by his father at the age of 16? Not outrageously spoiled? No, not that. Not expecting to be treated like a foreign potentate? No, not that. I'm sure he will be the upstanding, God fearing, hard working student - not to say humble - young man who should get any scholarship money at all.
UCLA is a public university. To say the folks running UCLA have embarrassed themselves is a considerable understatement.
Wonder what the students who sponsored the UCLA affirmative action bake sale will say about this? The university stands to benefit from the notariety, and potential generosity of the father.
When affirmative action truly stands to benefit the disadvantaged studen, it is vigorously protested by the university using as an argument "preferential treatment." Such "preferential treatment," even though used in a court of law, becomes completely irrelevant when the university benefits, or the student happens to be a talented athlete, noted performer, or the son or daughter of an alumni or generous donor.
Despite this fact, school officials persist in arguing against its legality knowingly using this self-servicing hypocritical argument. All of the judges, lawyers, and PhDs alike, turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to this reality.
even if he did the work, he doesn't need the money. he should have refused it so that it could be given to a really financially strapped student. refusing the money would have been the right thing to do given his father's enormous wealth. the kid drives a 360k car, what was UCLA thinking or is it payback because the kid's father is donating, or has donated, huge monies to the university?
People who need more, should accept that they should get off their rear ends and earn more. It is not fair or right that those with more success be deprived of benefits from continued success and hard work. The name "nohater" is a lie. You clearly hate those who have earned a better life. This kid earned his scholarship and he father's personal success and wealth have nothing to do with it. You are a whining loser.
Drivelphobe001 is missing the point. He did earn the scholarship and there are other kids who worked just as hard. He would have been a hero had he either given it back for other needier students who worked just as hard, or as someone else said for his father to donate another scholarship. (And I think the better idea is for his father to endow the school with a scholarship - and maybe he already has). No one is begrudging him his hard work. It's about educating more people.
I hope Diddy does something really smart and does it immediately! He should "immediately!" annouce he's matching the 54k scholarship his son got from UCLA and giving it to other students in need. Why? Because if he takes the money that should go to kids struggling to pay for college, he's setting himself up for a hornet's nest of angry parents and terrible public relations!
Further, his son will still get the honor and recognition for having legitimately won the scholarship while Diddy will get his own reflected glory both for his son's achievement and for the humanitarian gesture for helping some needy kids.
[The Los Angeles Times says the senior Combs is worth an estimated $475 million and gave his son a $360,000 Maybach car for his 16th birthday.] ------------------------------------------------- the right thing to do ... as one who owns a $360k car ... and who's father can buy him ten more of them without a problem ... is to decline the scholarship ... making it available to someone else who might be a bit more in need of the assistance.
there's a difference between what you 'can' do ... and what you 'should' do.
Sort of like Obama suing Arizona? He should support the state as it defends itself from illegals, but no, he and Holder, Mr. Fast and Furious, Black Panther lover, and liar, go after Sheriff Joe and Jan Brewer.
He always seems to be in the limelight, doing this and that, but ... was he a music producer like Jay-Z?
As for his kid - well good on him for EARNING that scholarship. It's not fair that he should have to give that up just because his dad is rich. He's a young man who's going to have to make it on his own in life very soon, so why shouldn't he have his hard-work rewarded the same as anybody else?
Maybe his dad's money helped him out in life, but I doubt it - athletic scholarships are incredibly hard to get. And UCLA's a top top school.
And who knows, maybe his Dad'll wind up setting up a scholarship in the same amount if he decides to go there, so I'm sure it'll all work out in the end ...
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Can we view this UCLA scholarship as a "microcosm" or example of the kind of discretion allowed educational institutions when dispensing student aid?
Please tell us how the FAFSA (Federal Application For Student Aid) comes into play. I know that it is an absolute requirement for every student, despite income, to complete the application prior to receiving any financial aid. It is also my understanding that colleges and universities can grant scholarships,etc., regardless of individual need. Are individual institutions limited in the amount of federal aid they receive and can dispense to its applicants? If federal aid made available per institution is limited for whatever reason, do you exercise discretion when granting such individual scholarships, knowing you have other talented students of far greater need based on their FAFSA, that will not be able to attend because of a lack of monetary assistance?
UCLA is a public university. To say the folks running UCLA have embarrassed themselves is a considerable understatement.
When affirmative action truly stands to benefit the disadvantaged studen, it is vigorously protested by the university using as an argument "preferential treatment." Such "preferential treatment," even though used in a court of law, becomes completely irrelevant when the university benefits, or the student happens to be a talented athlete, noted performer, or the son or daughter of an alumni or generous donor.
Despite this fact, school officials persist in arguing against its legality knowingly using this self-servicing hypocritical argument. All of the judges, lawyers, and PhDs alike, turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to this reality.
Further, his son will still get the honor and recognition for having legitimately won the scholarship while Diddy will get his own reflected glory both for his son's achievement and for the humanitarian gesture for helping some needy kids.
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the right thing to do ... as one who owns a $360k car ... and who's father can buy him ten more of them without a problem ... is to decline the scholarship ... making it available to someone else who might be a bit more in need of the assistance.
there's a difference between what you 'can' do ... and what you 'should' do.
He always seems to be in the limelight, doing this and that, but ... was he a music producer like Jay-Z?
As for his kid - well good on him for EARNING that scholarship. It's not fair that he should have to give that up just because his dad is rich. He's a young man who's going to have to make it on his own in life very soon, so why shouldn't he have his hard-work rewarded the same as anybody else?
Maybe his dad's money helped him out in life, but I doubt it - athletic scholarships are incredibly hard to get. And UCLA's a top top school.
And who knows, maybe his Dad'll wind up setting up a scholarship in the same amount if he decides to go there, so I'm sure it'll all work out in the end ...