High School Ged
Q: I'm supposed to be in my senior year but just dropped out and enrolled
in a GED course. I never really went to high school. I went a few times a
week in my Freshman/Sophmore years (In Bronx Science, a world renown high
school with more Nobel Prize winners than any school in the world) and I
basically stopped going March of my sophmore year. I still went, but like
once a month. I have almost 300 absences on my transcript and because I
still enrolled in 7 courses a semester, I continued to get 40s in them,
resulting in a 57 average (my GPA would be 0 - good thing they don't give
negative numbers).
I have a high SAT score though. Scored 1350 my first time (V640,M710) and
just took it again yesterday (probably be at least 1450. I did much better
this time.) I'm taking 3 SATIIs this november.
What are my chances of getting into a good 4 year college (have no intention
of going to two year schools)? The ones I'm looking at are: UC Santa Barbara
(or Santa Cruz), Rutgers -New Brunswick, Florida State, and NYU (reach!).
So what are my chances with a GED (hopefully I get a high GED score) and a
high SAT score? Most colleges still need my high school transcript and I'm
worried they'll see my 0GPA (even though I didn't even attend any of those
classes).
A:check back to previous messages in the newsgroup, the subject of
underachieving, high SAT scoring people has been the latest big subject
here. Some of us intend to create an underachiever's FAQ guide to applying
to colleges. You and I have a very similar record. I went to Stuyvesant and
had a 70 average, while going to classes sporadically and turning in very
little homework. My problem was depression.