I'm part of an elite group: I was a high school drop out, with around a 2.0 high school GPA; (Although I did get a GED through USAFI) no college prep English or Math, about a 1023 SAT score (under the 1600 scale) and no high school foreign language.
And I was accepted, attended, and was subsequently commissioned through the ROTC program as a Distinguished Military Graduate... at the University of Washington.
It wasn't easy to get in under those circumstances, but perseverance may be it's own reward.
Nonetheless, I have to be one of the few (Only?) to make it in without, perhaps, transferring from some other college (I had no other college time, anywhere) essentially coming in off the street. Here, "no" really does mean "maybe."
I actually graduated, after running up against an Army age requirement (to get a Regular Army, West Point type of commission, you had to BE commissioned by your 27th birthday) from Eastern Washington with a cumulative 4 year GPA of 3.48.
I mention all of this, not as some sort of verbal "whoopee wall" kind of thing, but to contrast this kind of nonsense, where the UW has, once again, forgotten who they are here to serve... best described as the legal citizens of THIS state and the students attending OUR school. I mention it to show I have experience in the issues at hand, the school... and getting admitted TO the school.
An earlier sign the school has become a clueless Alum cocktail party factory was the unspeakable idiocy of the waste of $250 million on yet another stadium rebuild with students being shuttled off to an endzone so the Alum get the best seats at what WAS the cost of fiscal rape of those same students... all accomplished while we own a state of the art football stadium that the UW could RENT AT A PROFIT... just down the street.
The result?
Entrance requirements are no longer based on academic achievement. They are based on whether you're an illegal alien or not (you're in if you are) and if you're out of state and can pay out of state tuition.
I KNOW my academics sucked... and I know I was lucky. I also know that I had been rejected, and that for a variety of reasons, that rejection was overturned.
I'm not sure I should have been allowed in. But I DO know that if I had met all the requirements, if I was a straight A student, valedictorian, etc, etc and if I was a resident of this state, THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT I OR ANYONE ELSE EQUALLY QUALIFIED SHOULD BE LET IN AHEAD OF ANYONE ELSE, out of state, illegal alien or no.
But not any more. Those two "qualifications" move you to the head of the line to get in to Huskyville.
There's an irony in all of this, of course. Many of the fringe left whackjobs in the Legislature who made this manure pile, illegal alien in-state tuition bill happen a decade or so ago, may find themselves unable to get their own kids... or others they know... into what is SUPPOSED to be the best public university in the state, because that slot is taken up by one of those same illegals.
There have been times when I've been ashamed to be a Husky: when the far left scum running the show up in that clown car refused to allow a memorial to Greg Boyington, Husky Alum and Medal of Honor recipient; when they announced yet another horrific waste of money for their personal party center so the Alumni can attend football games 6 times a year in comfort and now, this:
Why straight-A's may not get you into UW this year
In the face of continuing state budget cuts, academic leaders at the University of Washington in February made a painful decision to cut the number of Washington students the school will admit this fall and increase the number of out-of-state and international students, who pay nearly three times as much in tuition and fees.
Seattle Times higher education reporter
ALAN BERNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Becoming a freshman at the University of Washington became more difficult this year for in-state students, largely because of budget troubles, according to school officials. Instead, the university increased the number of nonresident students, who pay nearly three times more in tuition and fees.
Soon after the University of Washington's acceptance letters for undergraduate admission went out in the mail last month, the rumors started flying at local high schools.
High-school seniors with top test scores didn't get in.
Students who got into more prestigious schools were wait-listed at the UW.
Valedictorians with straight-A's were denied admission, while out-of-state students with lower grades were accepted.
Turns out all those rumors are true.
A series of worsening revenue forecasts and a $5 billion state budget shortfall have made it even more likely that the Legislature will again slash higher-education funding this year. So in February, top academic leaders at the UW made a painful decision to cut the number of Washington students the school will admit this fall to its main Seattle campus and increase the number of nonresident students, who pay nearly three times as much in tuition and fees.
"When the decision was made, it was not a happy one," said Philip Ballinger, the UW's admissions director. "There were real debates, and internal reluctance to the last minute."
The UW has offered spots in fall 2011 to about 5,700 Washington students so far, hundreds fewer than last year. Many more nonresidents — out-of-state and international students combined — have been offered a spot for fall.
The decision is based squarely on economics: Nonresident students in effect subsidize the education of Washington residents, providing a much-needed boost in revenue at a time the UW could see its funding cut by $200 million over the next biennium.
The UW expects about 3,850 in-state students to eventually enroll, making up about 70 percent of the freshman class. Last year, they made up 73 percent.
Among the students rejected: Brandon Stover, a valedictorian at Chief Sealth High School, who has a 4.0 grade-point average.
"It was just a shock," Stover said. "I don't know exactly what the UW is looking for."
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There is no excuse for this: none. And using this despicable decision to pressure the legislature?
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This is one of those time where I would pass a rider cutting the UW budget by an amount equal to the dollars they bring in for every out of state student so it would be a net zero gain.
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It's this kind of thing that sickens me at the very thought of allowing this or any other of our state schools to have their own tuition setting authority.
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The arrogance factory that is the UW needs to be sent a message: you don't work for and are not subsidized by those who live out of state, or out of country, or those here illegally, who should not be allowed to attend our school at all.
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The arrogance factory that is the UW needs to be sent a message: you don't work for and are not subsidized by those who live out of state, or out of country, or those here illegally, who should not be allowed to attend our school at all.
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And that would be one way to do it.
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