David Hogg: I’m Changing the World, But UC Schools Still Rejected Me

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LOL. I'm actually pretty happy this kid is becoming the face of the anti gunner movement. His over the top and sometimes extremist comments are very helpful to the pro gun side. Kid sounds like he's one step away from a full fledged melt down. His arrogance and big headed demeanor just makes him all the more unlikeable.

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Tuesday during an interview with TMZ’s Harvey Levin, gun control proponent and Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg said it was “annoying” he has been rejected by all the University of California campuses that he’d submitted college admissions applications for, but he will continue to “change the world.”

TMZ reported Hogg submitted applications to UCLA, UCSD, UCSB and UC Irvine.

Hogg said, “It’s not been too great for me and some of the other members in the movement, like Ryan Deitsch. We got rejected from UCLA, I got rejected from UCLA and UCSD, so it’s been kind of annoying having to deal with that, and everything else that’s been going on, but at this point, it’s, you know, we’re changing the world. We’re too busy. Right now it’s too hard to focus on that.”

He continued, “I think there’s a lot of amazing people who don’t get into college, not only that do things like I do, but because their voices just aren’t heard in the tsunami that apply every year to college.

He added, “It is, it is absolutely disappointing. But at this point, we’re already changing the world. If colleges want to support us in that, great. If they don’t, it doesn’t matter. We’re still going to change the world.”

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Great kid. Having gone through the BS of the college application process this year, I can say that the UCs made a big mistake.

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you see his SAT score scrum? you basically have to be a genius or amazing athlete to get into UCLA. they don't accept someone simply because he's part of a political movement/"revolution".

[Chadd77]

He might sell more guns than Obama did.

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Colleges have a holistic admissions process where SAT scores are only one aspect of the application. Yeah, he has kinda low SAT scores but his GPA was good and his activism is exactly the kind of social energy that colleges look for.

UCLA is admittedly hard to get into along with Berkeley, but UC Irvine? Come on, lol....

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[Bouncer]

i just think they see him for what he is.

i'm not against all those kids by the way. that girl with the shaved head I respect. as a matter of fact, during that march when they were speaking on stage and David had the mic the girl with the shaved head actually told him to give someone else the mic instead of speaking for someone else. she looked at him and said "just give him the mic david". the david kid is an attention seeker, he isn't genuine like the girl with the shaved head is. i don't agree with the girls views but I can respect her. David I cannot.

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If I were on the admissions committee, I would roll the dice on him rather than someone with no extracurriculars and a 1600 SAT. But hey, what do I know? I wouldn't have allowed Jared Kushner within a mile of the Harvard campus either.

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[Keiser]

He might sell more guns than Obama did.

The greatest marketing stunt by gun and ammo manufacuteres the world has ever seen. I remember going to four or five stores just to get bullets for my .270 and the shelves were bare and people were selling cases of ammo on gunbroker for 3x retail value. Total Joke.

And Obama never once tried to take anyone’s guns away his entire 8 years in office.

[chuckz28]

The greatest marketing stunt by gun and ammo manufacuteres the world has ever seen. I remember going to four or five stores just to get bullets for my .270 and the shelves were bare and people were selling cases of ammo on gunbroker for 3x retail value. Total Joke.

And Obama never once tried to take anyone’s guns away his entire 8 years in office.

Not for lack of trying. Congress never gave him a bill he asked for. https://www.politico.com/story/2016/...ons-ban-224493

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The greatest marketing stunt by gun and ammo manufacuteres the world has ever seen.

wasn't a marketing stunt at all. it was people themselves. they feared heavy restrictions and bans so they went and stockpiled guns and ammo. it wasn't gun and ammo manufactures that went around telling people to stock up now. the firearm community itself did that.

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If I were on the admissions committee, I would roll the dice on him rather than someone with no extracurriculars and a 1600 SAT.

i think you would find yourself in a conundrum. you like what he is saying politically but you would find yourself face to face with an unbelievably obnoxious, pompous, big headed little snot that doesn't actually understand some of the things he proposes. the second you point out a flaw you see in him he would respond with emotion rather than reason and you would find yourself attacked because he cannot take any criticism without resorting to "i'm the victim" and "you are a bully".

he's trying to spin this as if California Universities didn't accept him because they disagree with his cause. they declined him because he didn't meet the criteria. he can't accept that so he's putting a media spin on it and pushing the blame onto someone else instead of looking in the mirror.

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I'm just reading it as an 18yo kid disappointed and a bit emotional at being rejected. I didn't read it as any sense of entitlement. He's not going to have the maturity of a 30 yo.

My son was bummed out when Harvard rejected him. Oh well ... I just told him to move on and to kick ass at Caltech and make Harvard regret their decision. But with years of life experience, it was easy for me to say. I know how he felt.

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