Finding a college, deciding on what I would like to study, and how late is too late?

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This response on your previous thread has lots of good advice.

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The 620 on the English is about 75th%, and would surely be good enough for your state college, maybe good enough for your flagship state U, depending upon what state you are in. I’m not surprised, because your writing is pretty good. I bet you have been a reader. I’m assuming that your math score was much lower, since you’re keeping it to yourself. Yes, you might be able to bring it up with self-teaching. But you don’t have to self-teach the math. You don’t need an SAT to start at a community college. They are very good at fixing the gaps in students’ math preparation - they have an entire stepped, progressive curriculum for it! It’s pretty easy to teach a willing, motivated person math, assuming that they don’t have a serious learning disability. It’s much harder to make up for the lack of 13 years of reading that they should have done, in order to become a literate person by college - fortunately, this is not the case for you. Your goal should not be studying for acing the …

For your situation, I would definitely recommend, as people on that thread did, that you attend community college and see how that goes. Community colleges will have you do placement testing, and if needed will put you in remedial classes to make up gaps in your learning. Community colleges often have resources for helping you explore a variety of majors/careers, and they have typically strong resources for helping you transfer into four-year schools. Many have articulation agreements with state public universities that will either guarantee admission if you meet certain requirements at the community college, or guarantee that credits to take at the community college will transfer.

Community colleges have relatively more flexible scheduling. You could work full-time and take evening classes, or you could take a day classes, or you could take a combination of in person at all. Community colleges are wonderful for people in situations like yours.