<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I have a really unusual educational background. I was sick as a child, so I didn’t go through normal middle school or high school. However, I did go through a program in my state, called running start. I don’t have a high school diploma, but I do have this:</p>
<p>An Associates degree in Math Education form my local community college - 3.75 GPA</p>
<p>SAT Scores:
Reading - 660
Math - 630
Writing - 560 (multiple choice - 53; essay - 09)</p>
<p>To further complicate things, even though I am 18 I am not going to college next year. Instead I am going to go to the Czech Republic and take a 1 year course in the Czech language(My family is from there originally) given that all the visa stuf works out.</p>
<p>Given these complications, I do not know where I should apply for college. I want to be a teacher. I want to teach 4th grade. I even know that I want to go to a school where the professors have a high degree of freedom, and where I can develop relationships with them, over a school with a plentiful selection of classes. For me, idealy, my college education would focus on the study of education, psychology and philosophy.</p>
<p>So who fits that bill, who might accept me?</p>
<p>PS:</p>
<p>My SAT scores may be a little on the low side for my abilities. I have a superior IQ according to professional testing. I certainly don’t want to go to a school where I have no one that’s interesting to talk to.</p>
<p>I don’t have a lot of EC’s, I was varsity on the local high school’s Track and Cross country teams for 3 years and swam with the same school for 2 seasons. I taught myself to program computers in middle school and am experienced with using the linux operating system. I know much of what there is to know about abnormal psychology as well.</p>
<p>Money is not a problem for me.</p>
<p>If you want to major in education then you would be best off going to school in the state where you would like to teach. If that is WA then look for colleges with good education programs there. You can find intelligent people/students in any school.</p>
<p>Consider re-taking the SATs, then applying to a solid liberal arts college. In the Pacific NW, 3 good options are Reed, Whitman, and Evergreen State. After you graduate, you might be interested in a service program such as Teach for America or the Peace Corps.</p>
<p>Your SAT scores are a little low for Reed or Whitman, but you have a chance to bring them up on a second try. Your background is interesting and it sounds like your motivation is strong.</p>
<p>I know you can find intelligent people at any school. I went to a community college for 2 years and met many people who could hold an interesting and intelligent conversation with me. But in every class I took there, I stood out as the most applied, interested, motivated student in the class. Even when people outscored me on tests it was not because they where more interested and motivated than me. Rather it was quite the opposite, they where not interested in the subject at all, so they studied only what would be on the test and didn’t learn anything at all.</p>
<p>Anyways, now I need to decide what state to study in. I would love to live in a city with good public transportation and relatively clean water+air. I don’t want to teach in a state which suffers from too great a deal of religious controversy. Beyond that, I don’t know that I care which state I am in. I can say that Washington doesn’t have any good cities though.</p>
<p>Thank you for the replies tk21761 and Erin’s dad.</p>
<p>I will look into how I might retake the SAT’s. I don’t know how well that will work out with the over seas stuff. Are my SATs that bad? I scored 65, 67, and 59 on the PSAT in Reading, Math, and Writting respectively when I took it in 10th grade. According to the score sheet that was in the 93rd percentile.</p>
<p>I am not positive, but I think colleges require a completeing high school or passing the GED. Evene if it’s not required, it will help you out in gaining admissions to larger universities who don’t have a chance to review indivial cases as in deph as smaller ones.</p>