Furious about my old college asking for money

[derxa]

I had a call from someone from my teacher training college asking for money. A very posh young lady called up asking for my experiences after training... asking for advice... blah blah blah. I gave my honest responses fool Eventually she asked for £20 per month for student support. I feel soiled tbh.

[traininthedistance]

hang on.... so they are PAYING Students to phone previous Students to ASK for money ?? you could not make this up ??

It's often something more like a negligible amount, but often a rent credit towards the cost of staying up in their rooms over the vacation, which allows students to stay in town and do some work in the library for their dissertations when they are not doing the telephone campaign, without paying vacation rent costs. And they might get a meal credit for the time they are working on the telephone campaign, which doesn't cost the college much as the kitchens have to be maintained all through the vacation anyway (staff costs, conference catering and so on).

[CheckpointCharlie2]

I'd go with alumni derxa! And when I typed alumni my iPad gave me this picture! > 👨‍🎓

[Trills]

Of course they pay the current students. Did you think they did it for fun?

[Trills]

the admissions tutor ring and apologise for not interviewing her son

There's no indication in this story that money gets you a place.

The son has already been rejected by the (entirely independent) admissions people, so the development office (the money-getters) have nothing to lose and everything to gain by calling and saying "terribly sorry about that, please keep giving us money".

[BadLad]

If I ever get phoned, I assume the laughing that will accompany my hanging up will put them off.

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

Alumnae = feminine plural, so if you are both women that is correct.

Alumni = either masculine plural or all-purpose plural* for a mixed sex group of graduates, so safest bet unless you're talking about a women's college which is still single sex.

*The Romans were not big on equal opps or political correctness in language.

[Sgtmajormummy]

Every 5 years my parents (last known address) would receive an invitation to the Official Alumni Reunion at the May Ball. I did a Gap Year and knew very few people in my graduation year..

At the bottom there was a discreet "How much would you like to donate to the College?" slip to fill in.
I've never done either.