Just a thought: being “forced” to explore in the Honors program at WSU might be enjoyable for you? You don’t know what you don’t know … and that is one of the joys of college!
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As others also mentioned, for math phd, ability to read math in languages like French, German and Russia is a plus, sometimes recommended.
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What are your parents’ thoughts on your situation?
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Rip bro; ur gonna kill it in the future tho there’s no way you won’t
Hi there, I’m so sorry to hear of your disappointment. I didn’t read through the whole thread, just the first few posts.
A member of my family went to Chico State undergrad, UC Davis masters, Berkeley PhD and is still working (because she chooses to) at a universally known tech firm in an exciting, important, intellectually stimulating and extremely lucrative position. Your undergrad does not define you. And she looks back at Chico State with fondness, she did the honors college there and had close contact with professors who were way smarter and more attentive than their positions might indicate.
I know it is discouraging. I hope you can feel all of that discouragement, anger, frustration, and hopelessness, and after those feelings run their course, start to see possibility and hope.
(I am somewhat new so I don’t have any idea how religion is viewed here?? Please accept my apology if it is meant to stay off of this website, I offer the following with a sincere heart).
I don’t know what your faith is, or if you have any, but I believe your creator loves you and cares for you, and if you can find a tiny bit of faith that this might be exactly the right path for you - who knows how? or why? or what it will look like? - you may have an adventure that will be unexpectedly wonderful. I have at many points in my life looked back and seen that the very thing I thought was a setback was in fact an open door. I could only see it in retrospect. I think it’s Kierkegaard that says that: Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
And dude! With a work ethic and mind like yours, NO ONE can keep you down!!
Good luck and please check in.
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I don’t know about WSU but a lot of schools have coterminal masters which would extend your time on campus.
Their positions are at a university (CSU system) that emphasizes undergraduate education (rather than the graduate research/publication focus of UCs), so it shouldn’t be a surprise that they are more focused on undergraduate teaching responsibilities.
I use an example of a senior executive in high tech that I know who did his undergrad from Chico State - want to make sure my son understands that the brand name of a school is not at all important. Yes, there are advantages but there are as many advantages of a different nature at schools with low brand recognition
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I have only read a few posts in this very long thread. My first thought is that OP was rejected by almost all schools to which he applied because he had taken so many college courses at Washington State University. Has this already been discussed in this thread ?
If you mean in terms of automatic disqualification for frosh admission, most colleges consider applicants to be frosh if any college courses taken were taken while still in high school.
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Again, I have only read a few posts in this thread, but it seems as though OP has taken 2 years of college course credits during high school and, therefore, would only need two years of college credits for a BS/BA degree.
The OP has started college at WSU now, and has long moved past the “how did this happen?” phase of the discussion. I’d love to see an update on how he’s doing, though!
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It’s like OP wrote - he applied to one safety and was shut out everywhere else.
He was on the Case WL but even had it come through he said it would not have been affordable.
He swung for the fences with one safety and then was understandably upset about he had to use the safety.
As I recall U Tulsa, from this thread, said they’d take him late full ride but the program didn’t seem a fit for him. But it was a nice, unknown option.
Hopefully he’s excelling at Wash State.
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@OuterProduct we would all love to have an update. Hope all is going well for you.
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Many HS students graduate with associates degrees (or a significant amount of credits) earned thru dual enrollment classes. Whether or not that allows them to get thru college more quickly than 4 years is entirely dependent on the school they choose. Many privates give limited or no credit for DE classes, while some publics do.
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Indeed, otherwise you’d have a few San Jose high schools with more qualifiers – potentially many more – than entire states in the Deep South…
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Such as?
You can be standout student, the distribution of academic inclination will be wide. Collaboration with professors is easier and they have less people seeking their attention and time so they could actually set you up with an interesting inernship, job etc. There are some large employers that specifically recruit from smaller lesser known schools and you can stand out and land a job that is comprable to a brand known school. Brand name schools have all of this and more but sometimes there is so much attention and noise that it is not easy to stand out.
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@OuterProduct you mention being involved in Scouts. What was your highest rank?
Is your guidance counselor helping you at all?
You definitely need some Safety schools…everyone does.
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OP applied last year and is in college now.
Hope he’s doing well!
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