<p>If you take your GED instead of finishing your 4 years of mind numbing highschool, and you get a decent score on your SATs. Will you be able to get into a university.</p>
<p>Major in mind: Architechture</p>
<p>Yes, of course, but you have to get a good score on your GED as well. </p>
<p>This is just an example: <a href=“The University of Arizona”>The University of Arizona;
<p>“Students who take the GED must earn an average score of 500 for admission consideration.”</p>
<p>Keep in mind, however, that it’s probably more difficult to get into more prestigious schools with a GED because a) you lack more “advanced” courses like AP, IB, etc. and b) you lack a contribution to your community due to the fact that you wouldn’t have any EC’s that benefit a school (you’d have to find them on your own.)</p>
<p>You’ll be limited and have lots of hurdles to continue to have to leap. Just as finishing college is seen by the larger society as an accomplishment due to the strenuousness of completing the whole, so is a HS degree viewed by Colleges. I fulfilled my state’s minimum requirements sometime my sophomore year but the remaining time in HS was filled with great experiences and challenges.</p>
<p>The more selective schools may see a GED as potentially a cop out – especially if you don’t have extenuating circumstances (and it sounds as if you don’t). If you find HS boring, why should they risk offering a spot to you in case you find THEM boring and “mind numbing”? They are academic institutions after all – just like high schools.</p>
<p>I think this is an area where you have to pay your dues. Maybe find a teacher or two who is willing to craft independent studies classes for you? But even more importantly, you might need some objective viewpoints from someone you respect: maybe you hold some ideas or perceptions that need to change and mature. I dunno. Architecture isn’t for the faint-hearted by any means.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, best of luck to you.</p>
<p>Has anyone on here done this? success? failure?</p>
<p>Some state universities have alternative admisssions requirements for non-traditional students. Those may or may not require a GED. My D will enter college without 4 years of high school, but she won’t take the GED because the state univ. system here will admit kids under a different rubric of SAT/SAT II test scores and a 2 year foreign language requirement.</p>
<p>This is public univ. though, so policies will vary from place to place. Selective privates don’t ususally require GEDs or high school diplomas, but they’ll still want to see the same rigorous course load they’d expect from any other applicant – although some people go about doing that in ways different from spending four years at a high school, such as self-study, selected college classes, etc.</p>
<p>You should look at the admissions requirements for the schools you’d consider going to. Some may have alternatives to the usual full-time high school background. Those usually involve test scores, but often it’ll be the SAT/ACT and not the GED. There’s no way to know generally though. You need to find out about the policies at specific schools.</p>
<p>Some people have a great experience at high school, but it’s not for everyone. I hated it thoroughly. Never had been more depressed in my life, and haven’t ever been again since. (And I’m old now.) I loved college though!</p>