# Can you help me win an unusual scholarship?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-win-an-unusual-scholarship/677490>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 30, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-win-an-unusual-scholarship/677490 "2013-12-30T16:35:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![andrea\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@andrea\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrea_green)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-win-an-unusual-scholarship/677490/1 "2013-12-30T16:35:47Z")

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I was recently presented with an offer of admission to a niche executive training program. It seems like a great opportunity but unfortunately the program is rather expensive. The administration has a cool policy whereby they’ll potentially offer a substantial discount on tuition in exchange for a “extraordinary offer” of a task that I would be willing to undertake to help the school.

So this is where you come in: What unusual endeavour do you think I should propose that would have the greatest benefit to a fledgling (rather unorthodox) business school program?

Examples might be

- organizing talks at local universities to raise awareness of this new program
- doing something crazy/high-profile to get attention for the school

Any ideas you can propose would be very-much appreciated! Feel free to ask for any clarification you may require. Oh and the only other guidance the school provided was to be “ **creative and entrepreneurial** ”.

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-win-an-unusual-scholarship/677490/2 "2013-12-30T17:12:26Z")

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> [@andrea\_green](#):
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> So this is where you come in: What unusual endeavour do you think I should propose that would have the greatest benefit to a fledgling (rather unorthodox) business school program?

Off the top of my head, you could offer to create an executive-training program that (a) is rather expensive, but (b) gives discounted-tuition admissions to folks who’ll do all the work of thinking up and performing extraordinary tasks for the school; it’s pure profit!

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**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-win-an-unusual-scholarship/677490/3 "2013-12-30T18:21:59Z")

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I’d hand out free porcupines genetically engineered to display an ad for the school on their soft underbellies.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-win-an-unusual-scholarship/677490/4 "2013-12-30T19:07:49Z")

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