My daughter left High School at 16 and enrolled in our local community college, where she is thriving. She has a 3.9 GPA & is in the Honors Program, and will receive an Associates Degree this year at 18. Her GED scores are also very high. However, she never took the SAT’s or ACT’s and is hoping to avoid them. She wishes to major in English/Creative Writing & then (maybe) go on to Grad School for Library Science. She has volunteer & work experience and a range of extra curricular activities, none of which are connected to school.
I’ve googled lists of schools that don’t require tests, and she is interested in a few of them, such as Warren Wilson. But there others she’d like to apply to, such as Kenyan, that do require the tests. She would probably do fine on them, but she simply doesn’t wish to take them. Should she just do it anyway? Or does anyone have any experience with colleges making exceptions for non-traditional students and/or transfer students? Any and all advice welcomed!
I’d email the admissions offices at universities that require the SAT in attempt to get it waived. I’ve never heard of anyone trying that but it’s worth a shot.
There are a good amount of universities that don’t require the SAT for students with a certain amount of college credits. I’ve also heard of universities that require the SAT ONLY if you have taken it already. I was accepted into UNC with a 3.9 GPA from a community college even though I didn’t submit test scores.
@Naomi: I dropped out of high school when I was 16 and never took the ACT/SAT test. I followed a similar path to your daughter, albeit later in life, and found that a few schools were willing to waive the ACT/SAT requirement if you explained why the tests were never taken. Send me a private message if you want more information. I did a plethora of research on schools that would waive the requirement, and on schools whose ACT/SAT requirement disappears once a certain number of college credits are attained. Hope that helps! Best of luck to your daughter – she sounds wonderful!