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RaiseUp

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I was looking at some colleges and noticed that they accept GED's. I was wondering how can a person with a GED get in over a person that got their Diploma in HS ?
 
What about older HS drop-outs that went back to get there GED and now want to get higher education. I dont think they necessarily pick over someone with a HS diploma. They still have to go through the same application process as everyone else.
 
May or may not happen, hard to say. Best thing for a person with a GED is to attend a community college and then move on to bigger and better things if they are sucessful.
 
Well, I was looking at Purdue University and Indiana University, and this is what it said on the site-"All applicants must either graduate from high school or have a GED" . So if they accept GED'S then you have a good chance to get in to that school say if your HS GPA was 2.88?
 
Originally posted by: RaiseUp
Well, I was looking at Purdue University and Indiana University, and this is what it said on the site-"All applicants must either graduate from high school or have a GED" . So if they accept GED'S then you have a good chance to get in to that school say if your HS GPA was 2.88?
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Well a GED is just satisfying the core requirements for the state that graduated from. If they have a high enough ACT/SAT and other qualities that colleges seek then they are as good a candidate as someone who received their HS diploma. There are tons of HS's out there that will let you get a diploma a lot easier than you could get a GED. They will also pad your grades and the like.
 
When a college says "We give preference to Indiana students" that means that you have a good chance getting in if you live in Indiana?
 
Originally posted by: RaiseUp
When a college says "We give preference to Indiana students" that means that you have a good chance getting in if you live in Indiana?
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Sort of. If an out of state person had the same qualifications as you they would probably if not certainly pick you. A lot of colleges have point systems. They assign you so many points for GPA, in-state or out of state, test scores, essay(if required), interview(if required), etc.
 
Depends on the qualifications.

My friend got into UT-Austin Honors Engineering after dropping out of high school, and he hadn't gotten his GED before he was accepted (he was 17 at the time).
 
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Do you happen to know like what gpa it takes to get into Purdue, IU, Valpo?
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Not that high. My friend got into Purdue without being in the top 25% of the class, and very mediocre test scores. I think he had around a 3.2 or so and maybe a 1200 on the boards.

Check the respective school's websites, as they tend to post average GPA of admission (or at least 25th and 75th percentile marks).
 
Originally posted by: RaiseUp
When a college says "We give preference to Indiana students" that means that you have a good chance getting in if you live in Indiana?
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I go to Purdue and had a 3.7 in high school and got a 30 on my ACT. I know some people there that got a 2.7 in HS.

 
I think it probably depends.

I would think they would treat someone with a GED and is older differently than someone who is HS age with a GED.
People who may have dropped out of school early and later on in life achieve a GED, and are trying to go to school are
more likely to be highly motivated in completely college. In this case they probably don't look at someone with a GED
and a high school diploma. However when you run into people HS age, and they are probably are not going to take
alot of kids with GEDs. And I would wager that most of the GED students that they took would have a good story,
on why they have a GED, and why they didn't graduate from high school. And colleges love to read about life changing
stories like that.
 
I'd almost guarantee it RaiseUp. In Montana, state schools have to admit you provided you graduate highschool. You'll find that state schools favor in-state applicants, as they should. But in some schools it gets a bit rediculous (UC Berkeley and UI-UC have horrible out-of-state acceptance rates).
 
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