<p>I have a very smart friend who grew up as a foster kid and was abused for many years. Due to various physiological, emotional, and physical trauma, my friend dropped out of school but got a GED.</p>
<p>My friend is now early 20s but want a college education. </p>
<p>My friend is incredibly smart, genius in many ways, and have experiences that will make you grow up very fast.</p>
<p>I want to help my friend get into a good college and give my friend the opportunity many of us take for granted. </p>
<p>I am asking this community to help me figure out a way for me to help my friend.</p>
<p>I want to tutor my friend on taking the SATs, and maybe a few subject tests or even APs if that is what it takes. I am sure my friend will score in the top 5% for all the exams. </p>
<p>Please help me help my friend. If you are a admissions counselor, please contact me. </p>
<p>My friend will need financial aid as well.</p>
<p>If she now has a GED, it is too late for AP classes (and she doesn’t need them anyway). I suggest she go to a community college and take some of the core classes, to establish her GPA. If she was in foster care, there is a question on the FAFSA that asks about it and she will not have to provide any parental information.</p>
<p>The public library will help you both. Your friend should get a library card and check out some books on the SAT with practice tests. Study for taking the test. I also think you need to look for colleges that are interested in a student with a nontraditional background. </p>
<p>I suggest the friend does not take community colleges until you do an assessment. This is because freshman status at 4 year colleges can come with financial aid opportunities that transfers don’t get. So it may be the think to do in the end, but first decide if the friend will want to try to apply to 4 years. I don’t really have experience with GED takers approach to applications. But some colleges will take it and others don’t. I did help a foster child this year, but this was a very high performing HS student who graduated, and also had a high SAT score.</p>
<p>1) what is his/her state - some states give financial benefits to foster children for school.</p>
<p>2) how old exactly, or how many years out of school?</p>
<p>3) what percentile was the GED? If don’t know if this is true any longer, but it used to be that your GED score translated into a ‘gpa’ for your college application.</p>
<p>3) how do you know your friend will score so high? did s/he take a practice test or you just guessing? If score will be so high, little or no tutoring is required.</p>