Can a veteran get into a good school with a GED

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am a 23 year old United States sailor and will be 25 by the end of my enlistment. Due to a troubled childhood I dropped out of high school, attained a GED and was living on my own until I joined the military. I've turned my life around and I really want to go to a top computer engineering school, either Georgia Tech in my hometown or any challenging school near silicon valley. MIT would be nice but I feel like that is just a dream, but maybe for grad school!</p>

<p>The obvious question is, 'is this achievable by directly applying to these schools?' I plan on spending the next year preparing for the SAT, SAT 2, and ACT. Would I be waisting my time? I plan to write these schools individually but maybe someone here may help as well. What else would better help my chances as my high school grades are a tragic failure?</p>

<p>Also my job in the navy has qualified me for a few college credits (I'm a computer/radio tech). I hold a top secret computer clearance and finished my navy school at the top of my class with 2 computer certifications. I will be participating in an open source software engineering project but my time is very limited as I constantly work 18 hour days with weeks away from civilization or the internet at times.</p>

<p>Any direction would help.</p>

<p>Respectfully,
Sailerb</p>

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<p>Wouldn’t the Navy be able to help you get into schools? Just a thought.</p>

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<p>Yeah right. I can’t even get funding right know to attend classes while I am in even if I did have the time… Due to the government stuff going on.</p>

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<p>Never mind, I found my answer to this question on this thread:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/georgia-institute-technology/1531590-georgia-tech-ged.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/georgia-institute-technology/1531590-georgia-tech-ged.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>GA Tech offers the Regent’s Engineering Transfer Program, which will allow me to transfer into Tech after two years of study in a smaller community college. The best part being that I won’t loose any time, being I’m already feeling slight effects of age haha.</p>

<p>Here is the link for anyone else interested:
<a href=“http://www.coe.gatech.edu/content/regents-engineering-transfer-program-retp[/url]”>http://www.coe.gatech.edu/content/regents-engineering-transfer-program-retp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;