<p>WOW! Is this true that someone who has a GED can get a phd even one from an ivy league? I hear that someone with a GED can go to a Two-year Community College and then be transfered to a four year for his BA then go on from there.</p>
<p>Like how is this possible??
Four-year Colleges actually accept people with GED's from C.C. Colleges?
And once someone gets there BA an Ivy League school will actually accept them for Graduate programs?</p>
<p>OMG if this is true why do people say you cant succeed with a GED?
Please someone give me some insight lol! </p>
<p>p.s. I'm not trying to get a G.E.D. :)</p>
<p>Because many people who get a GED don't aspire to be Ivy League PHDs.</p>
<p>Why would this not be possible?</p>
<p>Of course you can get into community college with a GED.</p>
<p>Of course if you get two years of A's in community college you can get into a good four-year college. Sometimes Ivy League - there are many other great colleges, though.</p>
<p>Of course if you graduate from a good four-year college with good grades, you can get into grad school. If you had great grades, great research, great recommendations, you can get into a great grad school. Maybe Harvard. Maybe some other great grad school. (Usually people get a Master's Degree before a Ph.D. Often a Masters from one school and a Ph.D. from a different one.)</p>
<p>What part of this are you having trouble with?</p>
<p>It is a beautiful thing about our country. You can have second chances. Just because you mess up in high school does not mean you are doomed to life without an education. You may have to work harder and longer than someone who didn't mess up, but if you are willing, you can get that PHD.</p>
<p>I recently met a young man who dropped out of high school to support his pregnant girlfriend. He is now married to her and a father of 2 and working full time. He is studying for his GED. He has one class left-Calculus, which he finds fun and easy. His goal is a PHD in physics from UC Berkeley. I have no doubt in my mind that he will succeed.</p>
<p>nice...anybody want to add anything?</p>
<p>What’s the confusion about?</p>
<p>I attended a California community college, transferred into a mid-ranked undergraduate research institution and was accepted at every PhD program in Chemical Physics I applied to, including Harvard and Stanford.</p>
<p>You need to have ambition, discipline, ideas, ability within the field, and experience. That’s all. It also doesn’t hurt to work in some serious laboratories in your field.</p>
<p>The application for Harvard Chem Phys is maxed out at 2000 characters long :)</p>
<p>That’s it. GED prejudice annoys the hee-hah outta me. I believe it’s time I take an action against it.</p>
<p>Sincerely,
A GED “graduate”, who scored in the 98 percentile in most of her subjects, technically smarter then 80-90% of all kids who graduate with a legit high school diploma.</p>
<p>Who also happens to be home schooled due to a birth defect that needed frequent surgeries before she eventually ran out of insurance at the age of 18.</p>
<p>and that’s why she took a GED, and will be taking the ACT.</p>
<p>The GED is a HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY test, I can bet my left buttocks that a majority of the people taking this test only do so to get into college earlier, couldn’t go to school due to health reasons, had to quit school cause there financial/family situation.</p>
<p>Simply assuming they dropped out due to delinquency is a highly incongruous mindset to have!</p>
This is totally an old post and I’m sure you have the life experience NOW to realize that yes, people can work hard and make amends of their past mistakes. Many people are not even afforded the opportunity to attend or complete high school in the US believe it or not due to issues out of their control (abuse, neglect, finanancial obligations, homelessness, etc.) And YES! I never even finished 9th grade, I got my GED @ age 17, (scored in the 99th percentile) worked for 7 years making 70k in Sales and then returned to CC to pursue an entirely different field, transferred 2 years later to the most competitive U in our state with a 3.74, and fully intend on earning a DUAL master’s degree once my BA is completed. Thank you VERY much. I hope someone stumbles across this who is second-guessing their chances at achieving something better for themselves because of their past.