Gee Scott Jr, 4* 2020 WR, Bellevue (Eastside Catholic), WA (Offered 6/19)
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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?USMChawk said:
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.
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. -
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.
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Can confirm, got my AA before transferring in, making note that I was a legacy entry probably didn't hurt either... Insert white privilege quipGladstone said:
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. -
I wish pete would accept kids from the transfer portal
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Transferring in is the way to go if you don't get in out of high school. Went to a university out of state first two years where I got a 3.8, and then attended TCC for two classes during the summer for good measure before transferring in to UW. You game the system by attending community college in state (at least in my case) because admissions is required to give priority to in state community college transfers.
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Holy shit, I did the same dumbfuck thing.theknowledge said:It's so much tougher today than in my day. I was accepted into UW and said NO!!! I want to stay north and fuck my girlfriend from Stanwood! FML I deserve to work at a grocery store forever for some of the dumb decisions I've made. @Swaye put me out of my misery.
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Softy bcc plug
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I should have clarified. He felt slighted because of something related to Gees recruitment, don't know what exactly. Brother was just a student, me and him were in the same frat, he loved his time at UW.RealRhino said:Was he an athlete at the UW, or just a regular student? How in the hell would any regular student feel slighted by the UW? That makes no sense. Long lines at the registrars office? Didn’t like the library hours?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?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 -
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.Gladstone said:
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.
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. -
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. -
I was accepted and attended UW in a rather uninteresting way.
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Dick measuring contest, and I have 4 inches of hard Asian peen coming at you
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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? -
This thread really got fagged out today.
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Nothings changed.dflea said:This thread really got fagged out
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Today?dflea said:This thread really got fagged out today.
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The good ole days when you could skip a quarter and use the tuition funds as seed money for a down payment on house.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
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Hehe, bought my first home early 2000's and watched my equity go up 10x ... Went for a rebuild and watched my property tax go up enough to buy a small car.
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Fuck you...animate said:Hehe, bought my first home early 2000's and watched my equity go up 10x ... Went for a rebuild and watched my property tax go up enough to buy a small car.
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I got into UW on an affirmative action quota enrollment, did poorly while there, then got into an even better Grad School, did poorly there as well, and have been failing upwards due to my minority status ever since. VICTORY!
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so glad I checked on this thread for the great Gee Scott Jr update
only to find college enrollment smack talk.
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So do we got a shot with this guy?
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Orkin has a robust minority hiring program huh?Swaye said:I got into UW on an affirmative action quota enrollment, did poorly while there, then got into an even better Grad School, did poorly there as well, and have been failing upwards due to my minority status ever since. VICTORY!
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Are you me? 2008 is when I mortgaged myself to the hilt as well. I stumbled into a grocery job that pays my mortgage, feeds my two kids, two dogs and allows me to upkeep my acre of land while still having enough extra to have an actual saving account. I also lucked into my companies old retirement plan before they switched to the more cost effective 401K. Being a 5'10" HWP white guy has been pretty good to me in spite of my being a clueless moron.1to392831weretaken said: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?
