Originally Posted by aquinas
I'm also a fan of in-course scholarships rather than entrance scholarships. I'd like to see financing somewhat back-end-loaded to disincent prep schools from inflating grades so that students have the opportunity to gain more support if they show talent.

Lots of people have a great deal of actual interest in the subject, even if that doesn't reflect in their grades.

Someone who has a great deal of energy and dedication to a certain subject matter should get more money and support than someone like me who is simply coasting on their intelligence and is literally just there because it's free, it's a great way to avoid working, and you need a ticket punched to get to the next stage of life.

Yes, my grades were higher than someone like that, but I didn't even know why I was studying what I was studying in the first place, since the only thing I was interested in was getting better grades than my classmates in order to show them that I was getting better grades than they were getting.

Last edited by JonLaw; 01/11/14 11:29 AM.