Just Got Rejected To A College

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Most big schools don't check to make sure you are a student. Just buy a damn T-shirt at the campus store, and sit in a few classes with your buddies. Go to the weekend parties, tell the chicks you're a senior, impress them with your $500 watch and call it a day.

All the good stuff with out all the shit to make it suck.
 


have you considered your competition with these unemployment levels? my gut tells me that there are probably people out there with more compelling stories, and certainly better grades. why do you deserve it more than them?
 
shitzu said:
Most big schools don't check to make sure you are a student. Just buy a damn T-shirt at the campus store, and sit in a few classes with your buddies. Go to the weekend parties, tell the chicks you're a senior, impress them with your $500 watch and call it a day.

All the good stuff with out all the shit to make it suck.
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Exactly. Once I went to a big science class just for kicks. Nobody gives a shit if you attend or not. Remind me how I went to a big college campus everyday -- for a year to pick up chicks.

(ahhh the good old days)
 
Personally, I would get in touch with their marketing department and find out who teaches the closest thing to web/internet marketing. Build a relationship with that professor and explore the possibility of working together on something in the industry, or on helping the school develop a better curriculum on new media marketing.

Get tight with a professor who thinks you can add something of real value and they're almost guaranteed to reconsider your application and let you in. Forget high school teacher recommendations - at this point, you need something a little more spectacular than that.

I would also try to get a recommendation from someone really out there - someone with name recognition that you could bond with as quickly as possible. You can break through boundaries faster if you have something in common OTHER than the fact that you find them useful as a recommendation.

And finally, if the school has a donors/supporters program that connotes any kind of special name or honor, give them whatever you have to give to get it. It's tax deductible, the money goes to a good cause, and it might just help.
 
try applying for an arts program or something which isnt highly competitive, this is even more so if u'r in it for the experience rather than the degree.
 
If you want to be with your buddies, why not just get a house together and party on the weekends? It's too late to join a frat and you probably don't want to do the classes if you don't really want the degree. You can easily have the college "life" without actually going to college. Believe me - I had two roommates who specialized in it. LOL
 
Stefanie -- nothing personal against you, but what you suggest is simply what the mass do, which is ineffective.

stefanie said:
Build a relationship with that professor and explore the possibility of working together on something in the industry
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Need connections? Go to some affiliate summit, and not some old goof that never build a business in his life.

Get tight with a professor who thinks you can add something of real value and they're almost guaranteed to reconsider your application and let you in.
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Goober is going for the college experience -- not for the paper. Plus, who the fuck wants to work at another 9 to 5 job.

Rest too lazy to reply but you get the idea.
 
stefanie said:
Personally, I would get in touch with their marketing department and find out who teaches the closest thing to web/internet marketing. Build a relationship with that professor and explore the possibility of working together on something in the industry, or on helping the school develop a better curriculum on new media marketing.
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Come on. Do you really think doing some marketing degree will make you a better performance marketer? You get good at business by actually doing business, not by reading some textbook and writing essays on the subject. Same goes with marketing. What we do to make money isn't exactly rocket science, it just requires the brains to come up with a creative idea, and the balls to execute it without worrying about how much money you're going to lose if it doesn't work out. No college course teaches you this.
 
There are two things I do not understand.

Why people feel compelled to go to college.
Why people feel compelled to own a home.

I'd rather be an uneducated rich guy who rents, than a college graduate enslaved to a mortgage.

But that's just me.
 
I'm going to grad school next fall after 2 years of working full time. It's going to be a huge change... I don't know if I'll be able to get back into it after relaxing for so long.

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Who fucking needs educated people these days look at these dumb fucks walking around and everybody is happy... Why need to be compelled to go to college ? and just not be dumb shit for the rest of your life when you can make $100/h working as a garbageman.

The reason why we are still developing is because there are handful of people who decide to step up from all this garbage. The rest are just shit who'd rather be uneducated rich (dunno if that makes sense)...
 
shitzu said:
Most big schools don't check to make sure you are a student. Just buy a damn T-shirt at the campus store, and sit in a few classes with your buddies. Go to the weekend parties, tell the chicks you're a senior, impress them with your $500 watch and call it a day.

All the good stuff with out all the shit to make it suck.
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I know people who do this.

The cheapest way to get the first half of a college education is to attend any large lecture that interests you. They don't take attendance, you can skip all of the homework/quizzes, etc.

Personally though, I find large lectures to be practically useless.
 
All Solid Suggestions from the kind Folk at WF. Now the real question is which one are you going to take. ..
 
Jonyk said:
The rest are just shit who'd rather be uneducated rich (dunno if that makes sense)...
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If you think a certificate is an education, then you're missing out.

Being able to self-educate, to read, learn, research is far more valuable than completing assignments or basically receiving a post-high school workforce training program.

If you are a dumb fuck, and you make it through college, you will still be a dumb fuck. If you are a smart, critical thinker, if you are highly motivated and have a curious mind, you will benefit from any education, structured or self-organized.
 
guerilla said:
There are two things I do not understand.

Why people feel compelled to go to college.
Why people feel compelled to own a home.

I'd rather be an uneducated rich guy who rents, than a college graduate enslaved to a mortgage.

But that's just me.
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Yeah buying a house (the "American dream") is overrated, unless you have so much money that you can buy it in cash (so it does tie you down).. Also, college is just something people are indoctrinated into believing they must go to (else, they think they'll fail at life) in this society.. Although it's a very inefficient path for making money people religiously have faith in it.
 
amanda11 said:
Stefanie -- nothing personal against you, but what you suggest is simply what the mass do, which is ineffective.

Need connections? Go to some affiliate summit, and not some old goof that never build a business in his life.

Goober is going for the college experience -- not for the paper. Plus, who the fuck wants to work at another 9 to 5 job.

Rest too lazy to reply but you get the idea.
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This has nothing to do with getting a marketing degree or making connections to get a job - it's about the specific signs of legitimacy within THAT COLLEGE. If he wants to get into their school, he has to play by their rules - and they are people who couldn't care less about Shawn Collins or Nickycakes or WickedFire or anyone else who may have a name in this industry.

They do, however, care deeply about the opinions of their faculty members. If he can collaborate with a prof on a project or paper - or even just make the guy think he's serious about the school, that's what matters.
 
guerilla said:
There are two things I do not understand.

Why people feel compelled to go to college.
Why people feel compelled to own a home.

I'd rather be an uneducated rich guy who rents, than a college graduate enslaved to a mortgage.

But that's just me.
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ok, then pay someone elses mortgage for them because that's what you are doing.
 
Guerilla...Have to got to say you are on the Money!!!

" Dumb Fucks will always be Dumb Fucks, no matter what Labels are Acquired"

I have learnt this very fact so many times for over in life.

For example recently, I have had to seek professional advice from a Chartered Accountant here in OZ. Have had to put structures in place to effectively legally minimise Tax, this has included setting up discretionary trusts and the like...
So Just to get a good cross section of Advice I saw 3 people, university trained accountants, with the appropriate advertised accreditation to their respective Industry bodies.. I also did some research ahead of time prior to my paid consultations with the above folk so I could get the most out of the meetings..

Got To say...Man the disparity in terms of the quality of the advice and how it was presented/delivered to me was a shock. One dude in particular I thought damn...did you actually go to university...I have just paid you x amount of dollars for that tripe...

Makes you realise quickly why, only a few people in life get to where they are going, With or Without Formal Education. Its just something Innate, that separates some folk from most folk.
 
Demon said:
Come on. Do you really think doing some marketing degree will make you a better performance marketer? You get good at business by actually doing business, not by reading some textbook and writing essays on the subject. Same goes with marketing. What we do to make money isn't exactly rocket science, it just requires the brains to come up with a creative idea, and the balls to execute it without worrying about how much money you're going to lose if it doesn't work out. No college course teaches you this.
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Of course not - and I definitely do not recommend majoring in marketing to anyone unless you really, really want a lousy 9 to 5 sales or advertising job. Still, the department is there and he has expertise that may intrigue a professor enough to help him form a relationship.

I've met a couple of university marketing professors in passing and they nearly talked my leg off about internet marketing. A lot of schools now have token internet marketing classes that tell you stuff like "this is a banner ad" and "this is what CPM means", and those profs would probably love to meet someone in the field who could potentially do a guest lecture or collaborate on research (even if not majoring in the department).
 
if its a state or low tuition school you may have a problem but if its a private (40K plus) let them know you can pay in full with no financial aid and you'll be good.

Edit: Just saw you applied to Geno your fucked at getting in by making any stink, unless you are going to go tell them that you are going to be a NYS Teacher because that is what they crank out. Their #2/1 in means of state schools in all northeast.
 
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