You and the Apostle went to Central together, substitute the beavs for the true school of Washington and you've got your PNW 4.
UW class of 2010. I have a right to be here. All the Lane CC grads have moved on to the Timbers. Maybe you should too.
UW Bothell
Makes zero sense seeing as I'm from Camas but OK!
You and the Apostle went to Central together, substitute the beavs for the true school of Washington and you've got your PNW 4.
UW class of 2010. I have a right to be here. All the Lane CC grads have moved on to the Timbers. Maybe you should too.
UW Bothell
Makes zero sense seeing as I'm from Camas but OK!
Anybody who goes to those little branch schools like UW Bothell is not a proper elitist in my book. You probably went there or UW Tacoma. That's the way I remember it. A glorified community college.
Seattle campus. Spent most of my time in odegaard and denny. Papa Gates was the speaker at our graduation.
Central is a glorified high school. HtH
To be fair, so was UW
#WhyILeft
Pretty much anyone could get into UW as recent as the early 2000's, yes. It's an education mall to be sure.
Still, what does that say about WAzzu Oregon and BennyU?
It says that there are only small groups of schools, very limited in number and accessibility, that actually offer undergraduates something different and, arguably at least, better. It also says that the educational experiences at most large state schools are interchangeable for 99% of the kids attending.
My kids' HS cohorts who attended UW are generally chasing nursing or accounting degrees. The ones who wash out of those get Public Health degrees. The kids chasing those at any other P12 school are going to wind up in exactly the same place. Nobody cares where an accountant or a nurse went to school.
And the kids majoring in Classics, Philosophy or Art History at Stanford, Yale, Pomona, Amherst, Vassar or Wellesley, and their ilk, are going to be recruited on campus to work at consulting and other 'think tank' firms that UW kids struggle to get to every bit as much as the Oregon, WSU and ASU kids do.
One area where UW flexes muscle at an elite level is Comp. Sci., which to me is really glorified trade school. A lot of $$ went into it at UW for obvious reasons, a small number of kids get to take advantage of it, and more and more it's becoming a commodity skill that you can learn through a variety of other means. One day AI will overrun it in any event. But people flocking to get into that department have helped UW's selectivity numbers. It bears little meaning or effect on the overall student population, which looks and feels a lot like the one with which I went to school.