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BOSTON MARATHON: LIVE MONDAY ON WBZ-TV, WBZ NEWSRADIO 1030 AND CBSBOSTON.COM | Details Mile By Mile Guide | Road Closures | Best Spectator Spots | Forecast | All Marathon Coverage Lowell Senior Panhandling To Help Pay Way To Medical School April 16, 2016 9:28 PM Filed Under: College Tuition Costs, GoFundMe, Lowell, panhandling Emily Stutz of Lowell. (Image Credit: Emily Stutz/GoFundMe) Emily Stutz of Lowell. (Image Credit: Emily Stutz/GoFundMe) 2 LOWELL (CBS) – A Lowell teenager is hoping to help raise money for medical school in an unorthodox way – panhandling.
Eighteen-year-old Emily Stutz started an online fundraising page to help her raise money for her education. Stutz says she has not yet decided where she will attend school in the fall.
The senior wrote that while she has the academic credentials to study psychology on a pre-medical track, she does not have the finances to make it happen.
Stutz, a Lowell High School senior, says she has maintained a 4.0-4.5 GPA for the last four years, has volunteered for organizations and worked three part-time jobs.
After applying at several schools, Stutz said she has been offered between $11,000-$18,000 in financial aid. But she still needs additional finances to attend the universities she hopes to attend.
“My parents have had immense financial struggles and simply cannot come up with $20,000-$30,000 a year, nor are they able to cosign a loan for me,” Stutz wrote on her fundraising page. “I have no other adults in my life who are able to cosign and I am at a loss. I see my dream of becoming a doctor slip further and further away as the days pass by so I’ve decided I am going to do whatever it will take to get myself to college.
That’s where her plan for panhandling comes in.
“If people will give to the ‘homeless’ panhandlers then maybe they will consider sparing a dollar or some change to an aspiring doctor who has all the academic, but no financial means to attend college,” wrote Stutz. “Anything helps at this point!”
Stutz posted on Saturday that she spent her first day asking for money outside Target in Lowell, calling it “extremely successful.”
She shared a photo of herself holding a sign that says “H.S. Senior. No $ for college. Anything Helps.”
In addition, her online fundraising page has surpassed $1,200.
“As an old Tanzanian proverb says, ‘Little by little, a little becomes a lot,’” Stutz wrote.
You go to school, like everybody else. Go to where you can afford to go and go for as long as you can. Take a couple of years off and work two or three jobs and go again.
It might take you three years longer or so, but you’ll become that doctor without the significant debt that most have.
http://www.umass.edu/umfa/undergraduates/costs
I turned down ivy and went to state U for grad school -- because I couldn't afford ivy.
I'd like to live in a bigger house and drive a nicer car. And have her pay for it.
Can’t hurt to ask. She’s not holding a gun to anyone’s head.
Real question though is why can’t a 4.0 student get a scholarship?
Did she look for one? Seems to be the kind of question a journalist would ask.
Gotta hand it to him....
Go on line and look for ways to jump start the undergrad credits with AP tests, CLEP, alternative credits, etc. You can get an A.A. from Thomas Edison or Charter Oak (legitimate credit aggregation schools) and then transfer for the last two years to a place that can get you into med school. If you can take a year off, save money and try to get emancipation from your parents. Even move to a state with good in-state tuition once you qualify. There are ways to make it easier.
Money given to panhandlers is not earned, so it can’t legally be taxed and can’t show up as income to hurt student loan chances.
That would upset the narrative though.
If you give them a single gift of more than about $22,000 then they have to report it. But anything under that is tax free.
I have a friend who worked his way through medical school with a cue stick.
with those grades, why wasn’t she a Merit Scholar?
I have a friend who paid for her degree with a violin.
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