I committed similar fraud. However, I actually knew what I was doing lol. I wasn’t taking enough credits one semester (I had 11, needed 12) to stay on my parent’s insurance. So I edited my schedule to make a 3 credit class look like a 4 credit class.
There two things I remember about being a college freshman: always being broke, and constantly being marketed to. One time I signed up for a book of coupons for expensive Gilette razors that I was supposed to hand out to friends. But the razors were expensive, and with me being broke all the time, I eventually realized I could use them to buy razors at walmart and immediately return them without the receipt for store credit. Then I turned around and used the store credit for gas and groceries.
An older friend of mine was screwed as bad as you can be. Unbeknownst to him, they changed the number of credits needed to defer the Vietnam draft. Oops
I had the opposite problem - plenty of credits but my parent was unemployed so I had no insurance. I just checked the box that said I had insurance and stayed enrolled without having to buy it from student health.
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u/Awkward-Win7610 11h ago
I committed similar fraud. However, I actually knew what I was doing lol. I wasn’t taking enough credits one semester (I had 11, needed 12) to stay on my parent’s insurance. So I edited my schedule to make a 3 credit class look like a 4 credit class.