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== Anime and Manga ==

* Nanako and maybe Tomoko in ''[[Oniisama e...]]''

* Tsukushi in ''[[Hana Yori Dango]]''

* Obscure comedy manga ''Ten Yori Takaku'' is about Konoe Hiroyuki, a commoner who attends Hinomiya Private Academy ( nicknamed named "Heavenly Academy") on a scholarship.

* Halfway through the manga version of ''[[Narutaru]]'', Shiina Tamai gets into a ''very'' prestigious and exclusive all-girls' middle school through a scholarship. Funnily enough, she was formerly [[Book Dumb]].

** 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.

** 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.

* There's a very silly ecchi manga by the name of ''[[Asa Made Jugyou Chu]]'' which has the protagonist as one of these.

* Maya Kitajima from [[Glass Mask]]. 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.

* Dimitri from ''[[Kurobara Alice]]''

 

== Film ==

* The protagonist in ''Finding Forester''

* Demi Lovato's character Mitchie from ''[[Camp Rock]]''. Sort, of: it's a summer camp, not a school.

 

== Literature ==

** The actual education at Hogwarts seems to be free, though. It was the books he got for free.

*** "We took pity on [[Complete Monster|him]] because he lost both parents at an early age. [[Self-Made Orphan|I think, on reflection, that we should have wondered a bit more about that]]."

* Reed Brennan from the ''[[Private]]'' series of books.

* Jerusha "Judy" Abbott from ''[[Daddy Long Legs]]''. {{spoiler|She falls in love with her benefactor, [[Uncle Pennybags|Jarvis]] [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Pendleton]], and marries him.}}

* Naturals in the ''[[Black Magician Trilogy|Black Magician Series]]''. 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, [[Deconstructed Trope|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.

* ''[[A Prayer for Owen Meany]]'' subverts the "only one" rule; the town and prep school having developed around each other, the town never built its own [[High School]] and instead the school board pays for the local kids' tuition at the Academy (or optionally a neighboring town's high school).

* Ann Bradshaw from ''[[A Great and Terrible Beauty]].''

 

* Jo from ''[[The Facts of Life]]''.

* Part of the backstory for [[The West Wing]]'s President Bartlet had him attending a prestigious private school, because his father was the dean.

** 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 [[Fish Out of Water]] to this one.

* 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.

* The main character in ''The Best Years''.

* Rory of [[Gilmore Girls]] had a friend at Yale named Marty who couldn't afford to eat with the rich kids.

* While not on scholarship due to West Beverly being a public school, but Brandon and Brenda Walsh during the first season or two of ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]'' qualify as the middle class students in a rich school.

 

== Web Comics ==

 

== Web Original ==

* Subverted and averted in the [[Whateley Universe]]. 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; [[Word of God]] 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).

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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