@AroundHere And that is why I told the OP to meet with the GC and his parents to make sure everything is documented properly and requested properly to get him the accommodations necessary .
@carolinamom2boys Sorry if it came off like I was lecturing you!
What are my options now?
You just don’t seem to have the academic background to start at a 4-year school in a science/math related major. You don’t have the classes or the test scores. In addition to math and science, it sounds like you are missing foreign language as well. Your guidance counselor made sure you could graduate high school, but that is not the same as preparing for university admission. If you take the ACT with accommodations and get a better score, that will help, but it will not make up for lack of coursework.
Since you have autism, you may be eligible for vocational rehab funds for college, but it would be community college or a trade certificate or something based on your current level of preparation. As an IEP student, you should have a transition plan for what happens after high school. Talk to your guidance counselor or whoever runs the IEP program (sometimes it’s a school psychologist). Accommodations can follow you to college or community college: Talk to the advisors wherever you end up and make sure you get the support you need right away, before your GPA falls, especially if you are trying to transfer to a meteorology program later.
What do your parents want you to do?
@AroundHere Well my father’s dead so I can’t ask him about his opinion. My mom just wants me to go to a college where she can get to me easily when I get sick or something and we always get into debates on this because I want to keep my distance from her since she’s part of the reason why I work myself so hard.
That’s tough! Talking to your high school counselor about your options seems to be the next step. It’s pretty normal to want to be more independent from your parent at this age, but you need to figure out your options.
@AroundHere If I got to stay to go to a technical school so be it I’m done her after I get those classes done.
Also @AroundHere I could go to Lyndon State College in Vermont.
Lyndon’s state college is a wonderful school! It has atmospheric science. If you want to be a meteorologist go there! They make you take remedial courses which you can gradatue in five years.
@NASA2014 I’m really hoping I get accepted there because the last thing I’m missing are 2 letters of recommendation.
Did you applied to their atmospheric science majors?
@NASA2014 yes I did back in October.
I wish you luck! Graduating in five years is better!
@NASA2014 you should consider them if Penn State doesn’t work out and I might meet Jim Cantore while I’m up there.
Yea! I would probably apply then! Going to see what’s their transfer deadline! When do you think will hear back?
@NASA2014 I honestly don’t know
Sorry, I haven’t heard of that school. Do make sure that you can afford out-of-state tuition before you apply, though.
@AroundHere I already applied for the Atmospheric Science degree and Financial Aid.
Yes - but financial aid won’t guarantee that your total costs will be covered. In fact, at a regional state college in another state that you are not a resident of, it’s more likely that financial aid will not cover all of your costs. The total cost of attendance at Lyndon State is $33,000 a year for an OOS student. LSC offers decent scholarship support for OOS students, but you are unlikely to be eligible for much of it.
Are you opposed to community college? If so, why? CC is designed to help students like you get four-year-college-ready so that you can transfer later. And they’ll help you save a lot of money in your first two years.
@juillet well thanks for killing whatever optimism I had left for the remainder of my high school years.