User blog comment:The Anonymous User/Total Drama Wilderness Characters/@comment-1153194-20100719210034

I imagined him in college, as well, but I don't imagine him as a very interactive person. I thought about it more logically, and I doubt he'd get a scholarship, and never having been adopted didn't give him a lot of opportunity to have his finances together.

The reason that Yancy's college fund is so important to him is because he really wanted to go, but didn't get the opportnity because of his situation.