Why the hell should that matter? If you sign up to be a tester for something, you should fucking test it!

Well then, that is mildly disturbing.

Is that first self-sim supposed to be a teen tranny or am I just imagining a beard?

Several times, I have made a multi-generational family in CAS strictly for the purpose of killing off the middle generation (i.e. the parent) in order to have an orphaned teen living with their grandparents and they do get the scholarship. I usually kill the parent pretty much right after I load their lot and it still works.