Break the law, get a scholarship for it… only in America.
Via Campus Reform:
Students and alumni at Smith College are raising money to create a new scholarship only for illegal immigrants.
The all-women’s college in Northampton, Mass., is raising money to fund a $10,000 scholarship to be awarded to an illegal immigrant matriculating to the school. While the $10,000 scholarship would be nowhere close to even one year of the school’s tuition, campaign organizers say they hope it will encourage the college to give a full scholarship to an illegal immigrant.
“Our hope is that it will be enough to convince the College to admit—and fund—a qualified undocumented student who otherwise would not be granted admission,” reads the campaign site on INDIEGOGO, which tells the story of five illegal immigrants from Georgia who fell in love with the college.
The students saw it as “a breath of fresh air” compared to public universities in the “anti-immigrant” state of Georgia, which does not allow for undocumented students to attend the state’s university system.
The site explains that students who reside in the U.S. illegally and apply to Smith College are placed into the pool of international students, which can be “twice as competitive” as the pool of domestic students.