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In most stories set at an expensive and prestigious school largely populated by rich kids, there will be one -- and usually only one -- student who's 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.
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 [[Fish Out of Water]] comedy and/or drama to be milked from their situation. In comedic series, the character is also frequently the [[Only Sane Man]] amongst all those eccentric rich kids. In British boarding school literature, this character may be part of a [[Five
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* The ''[[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 ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Pyramids|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 ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]''. The scholarship boys appear again in the Moist von Lipwig books with Cranberry from ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Making Money|Making Money]]''.
** Mr. Teatime from ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'' was something similar. All guilds in Ankh-Morpork will occasionally take in orphans, who receive free training from the guild. Jeremy Clockson from ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]'' is an example from a different guild, in this case the clockmakers.
*** "We took pity on [[Complete Monster|him]] because he lost both parents at an early age. [[Self
* Reed Brennan from the ''[[Private]]'' series of books.
* Subverted in the [[Kiki Strike]] 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 [[Book Dumb|she's bored.]] )
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