Colleges without a long list of required hs courses

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So I’ve passed high school through an equivalency exam, and I want to start applying to colleges soon. The problem is, there are no colleges that I think would even accept me. Every college seems to require me to have taken x years of English, y years of math, etc, and when I left high school, I had like 1/4 of the credits necessary for a diploma (don’t know exactly, but I know that I didn’t have even 1 year of English, I only had 2 years of math, I had no history, and I had 1 year of science). I have nobody to recommend me, and I have no hook. I want to be a math major, and my standards right now aren’t very high.

I had the following SATs:
CR: 620
M: 770
W: 660

Which comes out to 2050.

Community college might be an option, but I live dead in the middle of nowhere with no community colleges in sight, so I’d need community colleges with housing (do those exist?).

I’m in California, BTW.

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Santa Barbara’s community college has dorms. It is also one of the best CCs. Do you have the funds to pay for room and board along with tuition?

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Below is a list of California community colleges with on campus housing.
http://www.cccco.edu/CommunityColleges/CollegeHousing.aspx

A number of community colleges have student housing nearby. Of course, you could always just rent a non student oriented room.

How much can you afford? There are a number of privates which might treat you as they would home schooled applicants.

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In California, junior level transfers to UCs and CSUs do not need to fulfill high school requirements or have SAT or ACT scores, so starting at a community college and preparing to transfer to a UC or CSU would be a good option. Obviously, you need to look for your own housing near a suitable community college.

Note that the dorms at SBCC are off-campus dorms not run by either SBCC or UCSB but which cater to students at both schools. Community colleges that are near UCs or the more residential CSUs may have more student-oriented off-campus housing (including off-campus dorms, cooperative houses, etc.), although non-student-oriented housing at other campuses could be less expensive.

Use http://www.assist.org to see how well community colleges cover the prerequisite courses you need to transfer to a UC or CSU. Prerequisite courses for math majors are generally not difficult to find. You do also need some general education type courses like English composition before transfer. You also have the option of fulfilling most or all general education requirements before transfer by completing the IGETC course pattern.