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

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  • dhdawg
    dhdawg Member Posts: 13,326
    edited June 2019
    recent grad at UW. Got rejected by multiple majors despite a pretty good (albeit not outstanding) cumulative GPA. had to go for my third choice and took a 5th year, making the most of it but I'm not going to say my experience was ideal.

    Not an uncommon experience either, I get why UW turns some people off.
  • bigcc
    bigcc Member Posts: 900
    Gladstone said:

    USMChawk said:

    Doogles said:

    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.
    Can confirm, got my AA before transferring in, making note that I was a legacy entry probably didn't hurt either... Insert white privilege quip
  • FireCohen
    FireCohen Member Posts: 21,823
    I wish pete would accept kids from the transfer portal
  • FireCohen
    FireCohen Member Posts: 21,823
    Softy bcc plug
  • zpsihusky13
    zpsihusky13 Member Posts: 4
    I just know his brother has a hugeeeee influence on Gee, looked up to him a lot. Brother was a really good basketball player but didn't play in college.
  • BeerThirty
    BeerThirty Member Posts: 2,465
    I went to Western because my grades were nowhere near UW level. I got my degree and worked in that field for a few years. Now I do something else.