Any GED success stories?

_rentof2
Fri, 07 May 2010 19:05:10 +0000

Foolishpleasure, traditional students apply to colleges before they have a diploma anyway, so it’s not like they’ve finished high school either. A student who has left high school, but who is not taking the GED, would apply to colleges the same way.

That student would be well advised to submit an essay explaining why they are not continuing as a traditional student and what other wonderful, challenging and self-directed pursuits they are dedicating themselves to instead, along with any kind of documentation of those pursuits they might have (a letter of rec from a mentor or something like that?). And they’d submit their SAT/ACT scores and whatever transcripts they do have from their former school, from a college or cc where they might have taken classes, and/or a transcript of their own devising of their self-study since leaving high school.