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4	In most stories set at an expensive and prestigious school [[LuxuryTropes largely populated by rich kids]], there will be one -- and usually only one -- student who's [[PovertyTropes middle-class or even poor]]. Usually this student is there on a scholarship (as the trope name indicates), but sometimes there's another reason for their being there -- maybe one of their parents teaches there so their tuition is discounted or free, or maybe their parents just scraped together the money to give their child the best education they could. In some cases, the student doesn't have a "scholarship" so much as a "loan", or has some combination of loans, scholarships, and/or grants. That may be a way of starting the StudentDebtPlot.
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6	This character will nearly always be the protagonist, presumably because they're more similar to most of the audience (in terms of socioeconomic status if nothing else) and because there is a lot of FishOutOfWater comedy and/or drama to be milked from their situation. In comedic series, the character is also frequently the OnlySaneMan amongst all those eccentric rich kids. In British boarding school literature, this character may be part of a FiveTokenBand. Compare TokenRichStudent, most of whom are in public school despite having options. For those who can barely afford food, see StarvingStudent. Also see PennyAmongDiamonds.
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14	* Downplayed in ''Manga/BlueExorcist'' where two of the characters ([[BigLittleBrother Yukio]] and [[FaceOfAThug Ryuji]]) are scholarship students and in the same class (the Advanced A class) thus. The actual lead [[AntiAntiChrist Rin]] is ''[[BookDumb not]]'' a scholarship student and in fact only gets in thanks to his new guardian being the headmaster there, as much as his half-demon nature and desire to be an exorcist does. He's thus in 1-D (also known as the lowest rank for classes).
15	* Tsukushi in ''Manga/BoysOverFlowers'', who got into the VERY exclusive Eitoku School due to her brilliant grades allowing her to get a scholarship.
16	* Referenced in ''Manga/DeathNote'', as (due to his sloppy clothes in combination with the fact that he got to make the first-year speech along with Light) the students at Todai University ''think'' L is this. They are ''extremely'' astonished when Watari picks L up in a Mercedes-Benz limousine.
17	* Teru Kurebayashi from ''Manga/DengekiDaisy'' is an orphan whose older brother [[PromotionToParent who had been taking care of her]] died of cancer, so she has to rely on scholarships to stay at her high school without any income of her own. Rena Ichinose, the rich president of the student council, started off teasing Teru over this before the two of them became FireForgedFriends.
18	* Maya Kitajima from ''Manga/GlassMask''. She's offered a scholarship in Tsukikage's art school and runs away from home when her mom Haru forbids her from taking it up.
19	* Implied two in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'':
20	** Hayate himself is in Hakuou because Nagi is paying his tuition, we're not sure how Hinagiku (or her sister Yukiji) came to be there, though Hinagiku has the possible excuse of her sister working there.
21	** All the more confusing since Yukiji's childhood friend is also a teacher there, and it's implied that they went to the same school as children, and her parents accumulated a substantial debt.
22	* Tanpopo, the main character of ''Imadoki!'', is one.
23	* Sharo in ''Manga/IsTheOrderARabbit'' is one, [[DeconstructedTrope and actually regrets it]], as this caused confidence issues arising from her need to socialize with [[PennyAmongDiamonds peers that are not in her socioeconomic group]].
24	* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' actually has two major scholarship students, the male lead Miyuki Shirogane and his little sister Kei. Miyuki got in via his intelligence (well, his bizarrely extreme study habits), though whether Kei got in on her own merits or because of her brother is unknown. Two others also appear in the series, though they either are only revealed to be such in their character profile (Kazamatsuri) or aren't introduced until the end of the series (Takano). There's also something of a stigma against attending school this way rather than coming up through the [[ElevatorSchool elevator system]], though only Takano is seen suffering from it as the other three had already been attending for at least a year by the start of the series and thus had time to earn their place in the social hierarchy.
25	* Dimitri from ''Manga/KurobaraAlice'' is a lower-class boy [[spoiler: (more exactly, a kid from a UsefulNotes/{{Roma\|ni}} caravan)]] who's taken in by a rich man and given a scholarship in an art school due to his singing voiuce.
26	* Luna from ''Anime/MujinWakuseiSurvive''.
27	* Rudeus at Ranoa Magic University in ''Literature/MushokuTenseiJoblessReincarnation''. With his scholarship he is given many privileges, like exemption from most classes (he can still take courses that he wants to), a dorm room all to himself, among other things. Rudy speculated that he is scouted by the school so that they can use his fame as an adventurer to bolster the school's own reputation. He proceeds to meet other students at school who are also treated as special scholars, but their own circumstances vary, from being a research subject ([[BlessedWithSuck Miko]] Zanoba), political exile (Cliff, grandson of the Pope of the Milis religion) and delinquent Beast Folk princesses Lynia and Pursena, all of whom gradually become part of his TrueCompanions.
28	* Mai Tokiha and her brother Takumi get into Fuuka Gakuen through a scholarship in ''Anime/MyHime''. [[spoiler: Which happens to ber a part of Mashiro's BatmanGambit to bring her to the school and reunite her with the other [=HiME=]s. Natsuki tries to scare her off at the beginning, but it doesn't work.]]
29	* Haruhi in ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', who's in the school due to her getting a really good score on an important test.
30	* There's a very silly ecchi manga by the name of ''Manga/SeeMeAfterClass'' which has the protagonist as one of these.
31	* Halfway through the manga version of ''Manga/ShadowStar'', Shiina Tamai gets into a ''very'' prestigious and exclusive all-girls' middle school through a scholarship. Funnily enough, she was formerly BookDumb.
32	** Subverted in the case of [[spoiler:Satomi]], who ''tried'' to get the same scholarship before her but didn't make it so she had to get in through normal ways.
33	* Obscure comedy manga ''Ten Yori Takaku'' is about Konoe Hiroyuki, a commoner who attends Hinomiya Private Academy (nicknamed "Heavenly Academy") on a scholarship.
34	* ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': Olivia is one in the Holfort academy, as she was admitted due to showing a prodigious talent for magic. In fact, she's often referred to as the "scholarship one" by most all of the students who bully her due to her status as a commoner.
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38	* ''ComicBook/GothamAcademy'': Olive Silverlock is at the academy on a Wayne Foundation scholarship, which is pointed out by Pomeline when she wants to be mean.
39	* Ben Grimm of the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' grew up poor on the [[BigApplesauce Lower East Side]], and attended Empire State University on a football scholarship.
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43	* ''Fanfic/ToHellAndBackArrowverse'': Laurel and Sara Lance were this at Balliol Prep, Starling City's top school, specifically catering to the wealthy elite. Balliol is so prestigious that not even high monetary status guarantees admittance; potential students' families must all have a number of significant connections. The Lances were only able to get their daughters in because Dinah Lance is a teacher at Balliol's college.
44	* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, a significant number of stories are set in what one reader called the ''Assassinverse'': Pessimal's expansion of the canonical Assassins' Guild School, as revealed in the canonical ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}'' but fleshed out and evolved here. By the time of Pessimal's stories, the Guild School has been forced to move on from being almost exclusively an academy for the sons only of the rich and titled. Co-education has forced it to accept girl pupils; political reality, forced on the School by Vetinari, has also seen it accept expanded quotas of overseas pupils who will be educated extensively in Ankh-Morporkian ways of life and thinking before returning to their home nations.[[note]]The Assassins' guild School creates a network of well-placed people in all countries who have the skills and aptitudes - and the education - to get into influential positions, such as finance, government and politics[[/note]] The annual draft of selected pupils from, for instance, [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica Rimwards Howondaland]] are sponsored partly by their own government and partly by charitable donations from [[TheManBehindTheMan wealthy and socially concerned individuals]]. The Guild's tradition of giving bursaries to poor and socially unconnected pupils who have been demonstrated to have the right skills and aptitudes continues. And of course orphans whose parents were Guild members are still schooled for free. Children of School teachers get discounted fees. All of this makes for a lively and stimulating mix. Children of all social backgrounds get to know each other and thrash out any differences and preconceptions in an atmosphere of open, free, and frank, discourse.
45	* Ochaco Uraraka in ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'' studied in a rather prestigious upper-class middle school, as revealed in a sidestory. She was often bullied by the other students because of her working-class background.
46	* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': Stoneskeep University requires its students to be sponsored by a professor unless they're of noble or patrician birth, and each professor can only sponsor one student. Fiora attended by securing one of these sponsors (from Professor Rohet) and then taking out loans, but Spectra's actually an aversion (despite also being a commoner) as she spent years saving up money from her circus routine in order to afford tuition (and bypassed the sponsorship clause when her warlock patron threatened the chancellor).
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50	* Chris O'Donnell's character in ''Film/ScentOfAWoman''. In fact, he was in danger of ''losing'' his scholarship due to [[HonorBeforeReason refusing to turn in his friends]] for a prank they pulled on the principal.
51	* After being granted a football scholarship, the protagonist in ''Film/SchoolTies'' enrolls in a prestigious private school, St. Matthew's, for his senior year of high school.
52	* The protagonist in ''Film/FindingForester''
53	* Demi Lovato's character Mitchie from ''Film/CampRock'' gets to attend the titular summer camp because her mom is hired as the camp's chef.
54	* In ''Film/TheBox,'' the protagonists' son attends a private school because the mom is a teacher there and they get a discount. [[AliensAreBastards Then aliens screw them out of it]]. ItMakesSenseInContext.
55	* Dodger in ''Film/CryWolf''.
56	* In ''[[Film/TheMightyDucks D3: The Mighty Ducks]]'', The titular team is given full-ride scholarships to a prestigious private high school called Eden Hall Academy. The varsity hockey team is upset because the Ducks took the spots on the freshman hockey team which would have gone to their younger siblings. They're initially a bit nicer to Adam Banks, who comes from a rich family, might have attended Eden Hall anyway, and gets called up to the Varsity team himself. The Board of Trustees decides to pull the Ducks' scholarships when the team is found to be struggling, but the Ducks are saved by [[BigDamnHeroes Gordon Bombay Lawyer Mode]], who coerces the board into restoring them.
57	* A subversion in ''Film/SlumsOfBeverlyHills''. While the schools in the 90210 area code seem to be public, the protagonist's father keeps moving around within the district so his kids can attend what he considers to be "better" schools than the ones in poorer areas.
58	* Ivy in ''Film/PoisonIvy.''
59	* In the direct-to-DVD sequel of ''Film/LegallyBlonde'', ''Legally Blondes'', Elle Woods's twin British cousins move to Elle's house in L.A. and go to a private school on a (partial) scholarship.
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63	* [[Literature/HarryPotter Tom Marvolo Riddle]] was one of these 'pitiful' creatures, which seems to have been a formative influence.
64	** The actual education at Hogwarts seems to be free, though. It was the books he got for free.
65	** Similarly, the Half-Blood Prince: [[spoiler: Severus Snape.]]
66	* The ''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} Assassins' Guild of Ankh-Morpork]]'' has occasional "scholarship students". While most of the students from the Guild are nobility sent for the first-class education, who rarely actually become assassins, the "scholarship students" got free education for outstanding work in the field of study - in this case, murder. Generally, they work for the Patrician. The first one we meet is Arthur from ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}'' (who received his scholarship thanks to a famous assassin father), but the concept was really established, named, and codified with [[spoiler:Inigo Skimmer]] from ''Literature/TheFifthElephant''. The scholarship boys appear again in the Moist von Lipwig books with Cranberry from ''Literature/MakingMoney''. According to this book, scholarship boys tended to get bullied, but "some of us survived", although other works, especially the ''Assassins' Guild Diary'', suggest that if an arrogant rich kid starts bullying a scholarship boy, [[BullyingADragon it's not neccessarily the scholarship boy who should worry about surviving]]. The diary also claims that scholarship boys can be distinguished by the heavy wool Scholar's Gown they must wear at all times, including swimming lessons.
67	** Mr. Teatime from ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' was something similar. All guilds in Ankh-Morpork will occasionally take in orphans, who receive free training from the guild. Jeremy Clockson and Lobsang Ludd from ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'' are examples from different guilds, in this case the clockmakers and the thieves, respectively.
68	*** Lord Downey on Teatime: "We took pity on him because he lost both parents at an early age. [[SelfMadeOrphan I think, on reflection, that we should have wondered a bit more about that]]."
69	* Reed Brennan from the ''Literature/{{Private}}'' series of books is a scholarship student at the elite Easton Academy. Many of the girls hate her for becoming a Billings Girl despite being at the school on scholarship.
70	* Subverted in the ''Literature/KikiStrike'' books, where there are a lot of scholarship girls. Ananka is the outsider because one of her relatives left the family money that can only be spent on education. Ananka is neither rich nor a good student (though her low grades are because [[BookDumb she's bored.]] )
71	* The narrator in Donna Tartt's ''Literature/TheSecretHistory'', Richard Papen escapes small-town California through a scholarship to Hampden College. He constructs an elaborate fake past for himself, telling his friends that his parents, in reality a gas station attendant and a housewife, are failed movie stars who own an oil well.
72	* Scholarship students are the lifeblood of [[BoardingSchoolofHorrors Montague School]]- ''literally'' - in John Connolly's short story ''The Ritual of the Bones.'' More specifically, they are sacrificed to temporarily resurrect the school mascot, a horrific cross between a spider and a scorpion, in a ritual that apparently [[BloodMagic strengthens the ties of blood and allegiance between the upper-class students]]; the is the unfortunate fate of the narrator's friend Smethwick, and nearly the narrator himself.
73	* Literature/{{Greyfriars}} has Mark Linley, a Lancashire lad who worked in a factory, and Tom Redwing, a (temporarily) orphaned fisherman's boy.
74	* Sam in ''The Four Dorothys'' (her mom is a teacher and she gets a discount on tuition -- she is also very useful for PR whenever the school is accused of elitism).
75	* Referenced in ''Journey to an 800 Number'' be Creator/ELKonigsburg. The narrator's mother has a custodian job at a private school that provides them with a cottage and free tuition . She marries a rich man before he begins, though, partly so he won't be labeled as a janitor's kid.
76	* Peekay in ''Literature/ThePowerOfOne'' wins a scholarship to the Prince of Wales School and nearly has to turn it down because he can't afford the uniform. He gets involved in several successful money making schemes after admitting to his best friend that he literally has no money of his own.
77	* In ''Is That You, Miss Blue?'', Cardmaker is one, by virtue of being a smart Preacher's Kid.
78	* Jerusha "Judy" Abbott from ''Literature/DaddyLongLegs'' is a poor orphan who gets to go to college when one of the orphanage's trustees offers to pay her fees and an allowance after being impressed by an essay she wrote. She starts out very self-conscious about the difference between herself and the other students, who have money and families and shared life experiences and cultural touchstones that she's missed out on. It doesn't help that one of her dorm mates is from an OldMoney family and doesn't see any problem with asking questions about her ancestry.
79	* Naturals in the ''Literature/TheBlackMagicianTrilogy''. Naturals have such strong magic that it spontaneously awakens, and an untrained magician is a danger to everyone around him or her, so they have to be trained regardless of their social standing. In the original trilogy, Sonea comes from the slums and is taken in by the Magician's Guild, while Tessia in ''The Magician's Apprentice'' is a rural healer's daughter and apprentices under her manorial lord. In the latter case, [[DeconstructedTrope it's mentioned that naturals are seen as something of a pain in the ass]], since existing magicians are required to train them, but they don't get the connections and favors they'd get for training a nobleman's son.
80	* Lee in Curtis Sittenfeld's ''Literature/{{Prep}}'' is quiet and mousy and from the Midwest, in contrast to her classmates.
81	* ''Literature/APrayerForOwenMeany'' subverts the "only one" rule; the town and prep school having developed around each other, the town never built its own HighSchool and instead the school board pays for the local kids' tuition at the Academy (or optionally a neighboring town's high school).
82	* Ann Bradshaw from ''[[Literature/GemmaDoyle A Great and Terrible Beauty]].''
83	* The title character in ''I Am Charlotte Simmons'' is a poor farm girl who winds up an an ersatz-Duke University among rich kids and gets {{Wangst}} about it.
84	* Adam Parrish from ''Literature/TheRavenCycle.'' Adam is very insecure about this. He works himself to the bone keeping his grades near perfect to maintain his scholarship and working three jobs to pay for school even with said scholarship, while his classmates can throw away thousands of dollars without a second thought. Because of this, his pride often gets between him and his non-scholarship friends.
85	* ''Literature/ToShapeADragonsBreath'': Theod and Anequs are both attending Kuiper's Academy on full scholarship. This is part of a social "experiment" by Frau Kuiper to prove to society that indigenous people can be civilized dragoneers, meaning both are expected to [[YouAreACreditToYourRace represent their race]] at all times.
86	* In ''Literature/TheTraitorGame'', coming from what's implied to be a fairly low-income household is one of many reasons why Michael has an inferiority complex. Michael's mum had to borrow money from his grandmother so that Michael can attend a posh Catholic school. Michael's only friend is Francis, a literal Scholarship Student.
87	* In Only Time Will Tell (the first book of the Clifton Chronicles, by Jeffrey Archer), both Harry Clifton and Deakins are on scholarships. Harry is on a choir one due to his voice; Deakins is on an academic one. Both endure some torment by the prefect, and Sir Hugo Barrington, father of their classmate (and one of the main characters) Giles Barrington actively tries to get Harry removed from the school. Giles himself has is friendly to both, and when Harry becomes a prefect he puts a stop to the harassment of a younger scholarship boy.
88	* Molly, the most studious of the main characters in ''Literature/ThePoisonApples'' attends her $30000-a-year BoardingSchool on a full scholarship, in contrast to her best friends Alice and Reena who both come from wealthy backgrounds. Molly is unpopular but not because she is on a scholarship (it's not even mentioned often that she is), it's mainly because she is a TeachersPet and a huge nerd who likes telling people facts about random words she comes across.
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92	* Jo from ''Series/TheFactsOfLife''.
93	* The ''Series/ColdCase'' episode "The Sleepover" featured a victim who attended a prestigious, private middle school in Chestnut Hill on scholarship. She was mocked endlessly by the rich kids, especially a trio of [[AlphaBitch mean girls]], before her death.
94	* Part of the backstory for ''Series/TheWestWing'''s President Bartlet had him attending a prestigious private school, because his father was the dean.
95	** Although the Bartletts can trace their ancestry back to one of the men who signed the declaration of Independence for New Hampshire so there was a lot less FishOutOfWater to this one.
96	* ''Coca Cola Presents: A WB Summer Premiere: Young Americans'' used this X2: the main character was a townie with a scholarship, and another major character was the son of the dean so he got in cheap/free.
97	* Cody in ''Vampire High''. Humans ("gadje") are accepted in small quantities into the school because vampires ("jenti") can't touch water and the state mandates that all schools have a water polo team. In return, they are given straight As automatically.
98	* The main character in ''Series/TheBestYears''.
99	* Wendell from ''Series/{{Bones}}'' was an intern who was able to attend because of a scholarship. How the other interns are paying for their education is never addressed, but one episode focused on Wendell being in danger of losing his scholarship because there wasn't enough money anymore. [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, an anonymous donation (heavily implied to be Brennan and/or Hodgins) saved the scholarship program and Wendell returned to being a reoccurring character.]]
100	* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'':
101	** Rory has a middle-class working single mom and her Chilton and Yale tuition are paid by her old-money grandparents. In some episodes, she's shown trying to get scholarship and she's considered different and special at Chilton that full of upper-class rich kids.
102	** Rory's friend at Yale named Marty who can't afford to eat with the rich kids.
103	* While not on scholarship due to West Beverly being a public school, but Brandon and Brenda Walsh during the first season or two of ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'' qualify as the middle class students in a rich school. And Andrea takes the bus from another district.
104	* Sam Winchester from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' received a full scholarship to Stanford, allowing him, if only for a few years, to leave behind the drifter life of hunting.
105	* Jan Di from ''Series/BoysBeforeFlowers'', just like the "original" Tsukushi Makino. In a subversion it's not just for her booksmarts, but because [[InterruptedSuicide she saved a Shinhwa High student from commiting suicide]].
106	* [[SixthRanger Eric]] in ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'' was all but stated to be this when he attended the same school as [[RookieRedRanger Wes]]. Even though Wes always tried to be friendly, the rest of their classmates looked down upon Eric, which eventually led him to drop out of the school and make something else of his life.
107	* In ''Series/{{Atypical}}'', Casey gets an athletic scholarship to Clayton and the rich students there are not very welcoming. She worries throughout the series about losing her scholarship if she doesn't keep her grades up or if she gets in trouble.
108	* ''Series/{{Elite\|2018}}'': Samuel, Nadia and Guzmán get scholarships in prestigious private school Las Encinas, paid by the construction company of the public school they previously attended, San Esteban, to avoid bad PR after the roof of San Esteban collapsed during an earthquake.
109	* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS5E12Brotherhood Brotherhood]]", RedHerring Chloe is the daughter of an ex-convict truck driver, has a basketball scholarship (even hazing victim and SympatheticMurderer Will is upper-class), and is the only prominent black student.
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113	* ''Theatre/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'' -- Angelo's tuition was paid by Lorenzo de'Medici. Angelo is definitely a NaiveNewcomer and FishOutOfWater, breaking all the social codes and getting excited and chatty with the BarbaricBully French students, which leads about where you'd expect, and the titular Cesare Borgia ends up [[DistressedDude having to save him over and over again]].
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117	* This is Rowan's background in ''VideoGame/BlackCloset'' [[spoiler:and the source of her potentially-traitorous resentment.]]
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121	* ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'': While the school Tomoya visits isn't that remarkable, Sunohara, who is from a rural area of Japan, managed to get there due to his sports scholarship. It was wasted during his first year, as Sunohara ended up defending himself against his senpais from the soccer club, resulting in the club being suspended from tournaments for that one year, and since then he left the club. Considering soccer was his only reason to even attend that school and he's BookDumb, he and Tomoya spend their remaining school years doing absolutely nothing productive.
122	* ''VisualNovel/SweetElite'': [[PlayerCharacter Scholar]] is, well, a scholarship student who attends the prestigious [[BoardingSchool Arlington Academy]].
123	* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' has a variation: Hope's Peak Academy isn't expensive and has students from a variety of backgrounds (from Sonia, a literal princess, to Akane, who admits to growing up in poverty), but each student has to be the absolute best (the 'Super High School Level/Ultimate') at some field, and are directly scouted by the school. The only exception is that each year they hold a lottery to select one random high schooler to attend school as the Ultimate Lucky Student, who needs no such qualifications. The Ultimate Lucky Student of the focal class is the protagonist Makoto Naegi, who admits to being possibly the most average OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent you will ever see.
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127	* Vincent from ''Webcomic/BestFriendsForever'' has a music scholarship.
128	* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' with the Baron's "school" of noble apprentices/hostages stepped on this trope, shuffled a little, then [[SubvertedTrope overturned it]] and walked on. Twice in a row. (Agatha and Gil both appeared to be charity cases during their time there. The first turns out to be arguably the most powerful Spark in Europa and The Heterodyne; the second turns out to be the other main contender for most powerful Spark ''and secretly the Baron's heir''.) Though the Baron ''does'' do this with any Sparks he finds that come into their talent young: This puts them in a place where they can be observed, influenced and the havoc they create contained while their talents develop.
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132	* Subverted and averted in the Literature/WhateleyUniverse. The majority of the students attending are on some form of scholarship - largely because, otherwise, there would literally be no way for them to afford it; WordOfGod has the yearly tuition fees at around $100,000 - and that's not counting textbooks, school supplies, and uniforms. Largely averted in that it rarely comes up in the stories themselves - the students usually have enough to enjoy themselves (with the exception of Jade and various gadgeteers and devisors, whose money woes are always directly linked to the supplies needed for various projects sucking up every penny they have).
133	** This may have something to do with the fact that Whateley isn't so much a prep school as it is an institution for teaching social responsibility for potentially dangerous people.
134	* In ''Literature/{{Twig}}'', Lillian is a student at an AcademyOfEvil, her tuition being waived by Professor Hayle of the psychiatry/neuroscience department so long as she acts as TheMedic for his gang of child experiments with SuperIntelligence.
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138	* In the ''[[PoorlyDisguisedPilot Crash Nebula episode]]'' of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents,'' Sprig becomes the first human to attend the Celestial Academy because he saved an alien princess named Galaxandra from robots. He expects people to find this impressive, but is instead mocked as just being the school's yearly "charity case."
139	* Hugh Test in ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' is desperate for his son to get one of these so he won't have to pay for college, they eventually manage to get him one in curling.
140	* A later episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' centers around Joseph receiving a football scholarship to an expensive private school. He struggles to fit in with the rich kids, and Dale tries to do things to help him better relate to his new schoolmates.
141	* ''WesternAnimation/UltimateBookOfSpells'': Verne was turned into one so his parents wouldn't need to be told about the magical world.
142	* Secretariat, the [[PosthumousCharacter Posthumous]] LegacyCharacter of ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'', was revealed in season 2 to have been one in his youth. His legendary race loss with "Giant Hearted" Sham affected him as much as it did because it meant he was going to lose his scholarship.
143	* In ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'', when Peter starts living at S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy full time, Aunt May is told that he won a science scholarship.[[spoiler: Although it later turns out she's a SecretSecretKeeper by that point anyway.]]
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147	* Isaac Newton attended Trinity College, Cambridge as a subsizar, meaning that his tuition was fully waived in return for being on call to do menial labour around the school--which usually took the form of serving the paying students their dinner (called ''sizings'' because they came in set portions and set prices).
148	* ''Creator/GeorgeOrwell'' was on a scholarship for five years at St. Cyprians, and later wrote "Such, Such Were the Joys" about being miserable and bullied by the snobbish staff and other wealthier students there. His friend and classmate Cyril Connolly wrote later that he seemed quite happy, was popular, and was rather a teacher's pet. [[/folder]]
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