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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.
  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,675 Swaye's Wigwam
    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.
  • FireCohen
    FireCohen Member Posts: 21,823

    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?
  • RatherBeBrewing
    RatherBeBrewing Member Posts: 1,557
    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.
  • DawgFader
    DawgFader Member Posts: 1,414

    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

    The good ole days when you could skip a quarter and use the tuition funds as seed money for a down payment on house.

  • animate
    animate Member Posts: 4,245
    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.
  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    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.

    Fuck you...
  • Doogles
    Doogles Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,726 Founders Club
    edited June 2019
    So do we got a shot with this guy?
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,058 Founders Club
    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!

    Orkin has a robust minority hiring program huh?
  • theknowledge
    theknowledge Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,628 Founders Club

    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?

    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.