Anyone else have experience getting into a 4-year with a ged?

Descartes1696
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:59:20 +0000

You’ll need high school transcripts. My worry for a student in your case if if you were bored with the material in high school, less than 12 months ago, I’d be concerned if you’re going to be as interested in your college courses as you think you will be. Of course not all GED recipients are bottom of the barrel, I scored well over 3200 and top 90 some odd percent. But it was only when I turned 25 that learning, real learning became important to me, and I’d had my try at college once around already. Maybe what you needed, like me at the time, was to have a few experiences and live a little, explore.

I would posit a few benefits to community college. If you can stick in one-two semesters and hold up a 3.5-4.0 GPA, you’ll have a chance at Phi Theta Kappa and to get basic courses out of the way, and when the four year college sees your performance, they’re likely to offer you money in the form of transfer merit scholarships.

It probably pays off in the long run if you go that route. But if that’s what you want to do, then settling for something less may wreak havoc on you in other ways.