I’m looking for a way to earn a high school GPA outside of High School.
I’ve already graduated for HS and have been out for a number of years. I was never happy with how my education and college prospects were going while I was there, but was unable to do anything about it. I looked at going to CC and transferring after two years, but I didn’t like where that would put me compared to entering as a freshman.
Once you get an Associate degree, nobody will care about your high school career. It sounds like you didn’t do as well as you would have liked in high school and find that has limited your college options. Go to a community college, earn good grades and get a transfer Associate degree. You should then be well-positioned to transfer to a 4-year college that you would like to attend.
I’m aware of that option and considered it. If I transfer after earning an associate degree, I often won’t be able to take any freshman classes and I’ll have two less years in the college I want to be in. The college I want to apply to has a low transfer acceptance rate than freshman. I’m not interested in pressuring employment with the degree that I might earn. I’m interested in attending for campus cultural, research opportunities, and self improvement. I willing to do what it takes, but earning college credit at a CC will put me in the wrong direction.
You can’t change your high school GPA after graduation. Are you saying the college you want to attend won’t accept you with your current academic record? If you want to attend a 4-year school for 4 years, you may have to choose a different school.
I know the rule is that I can’t or at the very least I should need to, but I’m looking for the exception to that rule. I hold both a GED and regular diploma, but I’m currently enrolled in an online high school run by a public university. I really dislike distance learning because the teacher/classroom is non existent. I can learn the material and I feel like I understand it, but when it comes to the tests, I find I studied to broadly and I’m not getting the grades I need to be getting.
I’m interested in attending MIT because it has more of what I think a college should have. I’m not motivated in improving my income or bettering my standing in society. I’m motivated by a humanist philosophy and desire to fix social ills through the advancement of science and technology. I’m put off by the colleges that market themselves for their low cost per credit, their high rate of employment, or their sports programs.
As is, I probably can’t get into any 4 year school on account being… mismanaged during the K-12 years. I was diagnosed and classified in kindergarten. During these years, their assessment of me was never explicitly stated to me and I couldn’t really improve as a result. In the beginning of my sophomore in high school, I decided that I wanted to go to college and I wanted to take some harder classes. I was prevented from taking anything better that the lowest level class for every subject offered. I was not aware that high schoolers had a GPA, I though it was system for colleges. It was never explained what colleges look for or how scholarships or financial work. I made a lot of mistakes in high school, but all of them were made after being feed bad information for people who I was taught to trust. Now, as a adult who can’t have my decisions over written by a legal guardian, all I want to do is get the same chance I should have gotten if I wasn’t sabotaged.
If you’re asking if you can get a replacement high school GPA, I don’t believe you can. You’ve completed high school, and did well enough to graduate. What was your high school GPA?
High school is done, there’s no way to redo it. You’re going to have to transfer somewhere.
Your situation is one of the reasons many students attend community college. I know it is not what you want to do, but if the reality is that a four-year school will not accept you based on your current academic record, this is the route you are going to have to take. You cannot “redo” high school; what you can do is attend a community college, do well, and show the four-years schools that you now have what it takes to be successful in college.
albert69, I don’t have me GPA presently. I would have to contact my old school to find out. Short version is though, I didn’t actually take a foreign language or art class, which were requirements for graduation. My state’s board of ed didn’t care.
popitx, blprof, The rule is I can’t redo high school. I’m looking for the exception.
MIT is one of the most elite and highly-selective colleges in the world. The only way you have even a remote chance of getting in is if you have a GPA approaching 4.0, near-perfect SAT/ACT scores, and impressive extracurricular accomplishments. You are looking for an exception that simply does not exist. If your goal is to attend MIT, then suck it up, buckle down big time and devote the next two years of your life to excelling at a good community college (or a 4-year college). Then apply to transfer.
Finally, develop a Plan B for the next step to take in case your transfer plan does is not successful. Apply to some other schools that are similar to MIT, such as Cal-Berkeley, CalTech, UCLA, Cornell or Carnegie-Mellon. Also, apply to schools that are similar to, but a step down from those listed above: Northwestern, UC-Santa Barbara, Univ of Washington, U of Minnesota, UC-San Diego, UC-Davis.