GradeFund Helps Stellar Students Pay for College
Posted on November 21, 2008
Filed Under News, The Daily Prereq | By Mike Dang
Tuition increases. Budget cuts. How are college students suppose to pay for college while times are rough? Maybe it’s time for some donations. According to the The Harvard Crimson, Ivy League brothers Michael Kopko (Harvard ‘07) and Matthew Kopko (Princeton ‘08) created a new Web application called GradeFund, which gives broke students the opportunity to invite family and community members (your family doctor, your mom’s cool, wealthy boss) to pledge money towards their education for getting all those A’s.
Here’s how it works: students upload their transcripts onto the site, and when grades improve, the application collects money from donors and sends it to the students’ colleges. Getting an A in your statistics class is reward enough, but getting an A and $1,000 from donors to lessen the loan load sure sounds a lot better.
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