• MF_COOM [he/him]
    hexbear
    51
    1 month ago

    Wait what kind of class has a $1000 incentive for best grade?

    • @meeshen@vegantheoryclub.org
      hexbear
      18
      1 month ago

      For my graduation (non-American country btw), the top like 30 students in school got awards. I was at place 21 or 22 and got like the equivalent of $100. The girl who got #1 (and she had like perfect grades all around, with a shitload of extracurriculars etc) won some fancy language trip across Europe or some shit, said to be worth like $4000.

      Prior to the graduation ceremony I had no idea they were even giving out prizes lol, best I ever got before that was a book

      • MF_COOM [he/him]
        hexbear
        5
        1 month ago

        Like cash though? Grants and scholarships for grads is one thing but cash for best grade in class just sounds like made-up bullshit

        • @meeshen@vegantheoryclub.org
          hexbear
          2
          1 month ago

          The "minor prizes" like the one I got were checks to be cashed in, the perfect score girl prize was more like a grant though.

          And yeah I too was surprised and while I was happy at the time (which kid wouldn't, right), it does feel weird now lol. My guess is that they fucked up their budget for the year and needed to burn the money for tax reasons?

        • @bloubz@lemmygrad.ml
          hexbear
          1
          1 month ago

          They never said it was given as cash, the even explicitly say the guy brought it in class as cash, suggesting it wasn't probably cash before

          • MF_COOM [he/him]
            hexbear
            1
            1 month ago

            I get that, I meant more like most grants, bursaries and scholarships can't be cashed out, they can only be spent on tuition.

    • Lerios [hy/hym]
      hexbear
      8
      1 month ago

      idk about best grade, but in my university people performing "significantly over expectation" in the first year got 1000€. i think it was to stop the nerds realising that we were actually way overqualified for the school we were in and transferring out. it was directly wired into our banks though, not cash - honestly i didn't know about it at first and called my bank incase i was being scammed lol. it might have been a STEM only thing?