Off My Chest
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Man don't even worry, I was kicked out of HS. Yet I still got a bachelor's degree from a good college. You have the GED so you can check the box that asked if you graduated HS. No one has to know it was a GED.
Hell for a while I had my GED framed right next to my college diploma.
Here is what you do if you want to go to a 4 year university.
Go to Community College, after a year at CC you are no longer a new student when applying to a 4 year university. You are a transfer student. So the only thing the 4 year school wants to know is if you graduated HS. They don't care how or what your grades were. They only look at your CC grades.
If you want more detail send me a DM and I will tell you everything that worked and didn't work for me and a friend who did the same thing.
I care. I tried community college. The last time was biology and my submitted lab project was vetoed because it was too involved. I get invited to do high school science fair judging and most of those projects would have been vetoed for that reason.
Before that, I tried to take geometry at a different community college and they refused me because I tested out of the class with the placement test that required I take. I had to pay to take a test that barred me from the only class I went there to take. There's something messed up about that, right? I'm currently struggling with an online high school because I do better with a classroom and going at someone's pace.
Ideally, you work towards an associates degree which then makes it even easier to transfer to a university. Many states have agreements between community colleges and universities where your associate's degree counts for the first 2 years of studies and all of your electives. So when you start a university you jump right into your major. However, you will have to take more than just one class at the community college.
That's not really ideal for me. I'd prefer a clean start. Going right into a major from community college sounds like going from training wheels to down hill mountain biking. I only gave one example of what I didn't like about my biology class, but there were other red flags that the teacher gave me. It was a very Cs Get Degrees type experience. Anyway, I'm not looking for advice. This is just offmychest.