Gee Scott Jr, 4* 2020 WR, Bellevue (Eastside Catholic), WA (Offered 6/19)

Woof

I got into UW with a scholarship, but decided to go to a private school on the east coast because I wanted to be drowning in debt.

Then I did it again for grad school.

chuck

I couldn't get into UW out of HS and it wasn't as difficult then as it is now. I had to go the AA-transfer route which is/was remarkably easy, at least if you get it from a Seattle CC.

RaceBannon

Times have sure changed. I was a slacker in high school that only got my grades up senior year because I had plans to graduate early and get the fuck out of there and the vice principle said not with the 1.9 GPA I pulled first semester as a junior. So I got a 4.0 and stayed anyway

Got into UW rather easily. No extra curricular stuff or achievements. Just pay the 180$ a quarter and show up.

And walked 5 miles miles each way uphill to get there and was THANKFUL to do so before I dropped out

FireCohen

RaceBannon said:

Times have sure changed. I was a slacker in high school that only got my grades up senior year because I had plans to graduate early and get the fuck out of there and the vice principle said not with the 1.9 GPA I pulled first semester as a junior. So I got a 4.0 and stayed anyway

Got into UW rather easily. No extra curricular stuff or achievements. Just pay the 180$ a quarter and show up.

And walked 5 miles miles each way uphill to get there and was THANKFUL to do so before I dropped out

You never finished?

UW_Doog_Bot

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bigcc said:

Probably just an overall shitty experience, it's easy to have an idea of what college is like from movies and such, and to have an entirely different experience in person.... Speaking from experience

The athlete experience and Joe Shmoe Gee experience are two entirely different things.

If his step brother wasn't an athlete, it's hard to see how he could feel slighted by UW outside of weather and attending while Ty was Coach. At least enough to not pull for the home team.

My wife and I are both alums and brought up both daughters to be Husky fanatics. My older daughter was rejected by the UW outright, she wasn’t even waitlisted. She had the academic numbers so it had to be she was the wrong demographic or her designated major was extremely competitive. So she took a full ride offer from another university. Because of that, my youngest daughter didn’t even bother to apply to UW. Not because she wouldn’t have been accepted (her numbers were better) but out of spite. TBH, I feel a bit spiteful as well and now make all my donations to their school, not UW. It doesn’t take much to sour an entire family on a business, school, product, etc.

This is a story that many people can relate to. Some become scornful and turn away, like your family. Others attend community college or other four year universities, get their grades up, and then transfer to Washington their sophomore or junior year. Did you know that well over 50% of all UW undergraduate degree earners in 2018 came in as transfers?

I am a millennial who got rejected by UW out of HS despite good numbers. Devastating. Sad for weeks. Dream school. Then a resolve hit me like a storm. I attended a distant private school in California with a full scholarship. After my freshman year I had a 3.9 and applied to transfer to UW for my sophomore year and got in.

Taking your ball and going home because of HS rejection was a mistake imo.

UW wasn't even on my radar when I graduated HS other than I loved the Huskies football team(TUI!). I had GPA < 2.5 and a 48% attendance record(My HS reformed their attendance policies bc of all the loopholes I exploited) but passed 12 AP exams(some for classes I didn't take) and had a 1470 SAT while still kind of drunk from drinking 40's the night before at a punk show. Oh, I was also county champion in Academic Decathlon(Nerd!) while flunking out of a handful of senior classes. I was kind of a shithead, still am. No fucking way was UW taking me.

Mom, being the smart lady that she is, day after graduation told me I could either 1) Pay 1/3 of the mortgage + utilities + all the other bills to live at home 2) Move out or 3) Attend CC and live at home for free. I had until the end of the month, a week or two, to decide. I chose #3 and quickly figured out that nobody gives a fuck if you are a punk or a rebel after high school. I then spent enough time working as a roofer in SoCal to convince me I'd rather make good money and hate my job than hate my job and make dirt. Moved to Washington and fell in love with UW. Got straight A's for the rest of my tim at CC and wrote quite the application on how UW was the only school that had ever inspired me to live up to any of my potential. I think since I'm a legacy I got counted as an in-state applicant even as an out of state transfer which didn't hurt. Smashing the rest of community college and then going to UW was by far one of the best decisions I made with my life. I don't think if I'd gone to a UC(which I could have either after highschool with my SAT or was guaranteed from CA cc) I would have been nearly as successful or happy.

RatherBeBrewing

Are we bragging about acceptance or sharing sob stories?

I was accepted by UW for undergrad, 3.8 GPA at a private HS, 1520 SAT and a shit ton of extracurriculars including football and student council. Eight years later accepted by them for law school with a generous, but not full ride, scholarship, 3.8 undergrad GPA, 168 LSAT.

White male, both parents have grad degrees, no affirmative action for white russkis. Went to U of O, in state tuition and my parents said they'd pay for an off campus apartment and upgrade my car if I did that. Nowadays they force freshmen to live in dorms. Probably a good choice by the university. I did a lot of drugs. Took a break for a year to do drugs and Colt out full time, took another year to get a job I had no business having. Went back, finished my degree.

It's really not that hard. If your kids aren't getting into a state school it's because you're either a bad parent or your kids are retarded.

If you went to get an AA before a BS or BA it's because you're poor or dumb. But you're also smart, because that shit is cheap and easier. Plus, you get to bang community college chicks before they have two kids by 22.

At the end of the day nothing matters, and if someone brags about their school academis and didn't go to an Ivy equivalent - they are a douche.

jarlsbergraygun

I was accepted and attended UW in a rather uninteresting way.

LongDukDong

Dick measuring contest, and I have 4 inches of hard Asian peen coming at you

1to392831weretaken

Most of my high school friends applied to both Western and UW. Some only got accepted to UW, some only got accepted to Western, some to both or neither. It wasn't so cut and dry back then which had the higher standards. Anyway, I was fucking retarded and thought I was going to marry my high school girlfriend (and that this would actually be a good thing anyway), so I didn't want to move too far away. Only applied to Western. She dumped me first quarter of freshman year.

Fuuuuuuck me. Thankfully there's an Orkin franchise in Bellingham (figuratively speaking), otherwise I'd be one of those guys selling flowers from the Meridian offramp. There is a certain subset of people who roll their eyes at the concept of "white privilege," but, goddamn, I've done exactly the opposite of the "right thing" at every single major decision in life* and yet have managed to somehow fail my way to the very comfortable middle and want for pretty much nothing. My success is certainly a product of a broken system!...

*Fun example: Most of my friends bought their first homes either in the ~2005 time frame or ~2010 time frame and immediately watched their equity balloon. Me? Hell no. What could possibly go wrong with mortgaging yourself to the hilt in May of 2008?

dflea

This thread really got fagged out today.