what can i do?

[dustbunnysoup]

as a recent ex-tamster.. i'm curious as to what my options are now..

anyone have any advice for colleges that will accept me with a mediocre gpa and no high school diploma?

Comments

[5h4wn]

I belive the minimum requirement for Texas A&M is just a 1300 on the SAT. I do not know if you need the diploma to take advantage of that and since it was last year they may have changed it.

[p3rlm0nk]

Stay at UNT and finish your first two year's worth of stuff at least,
then look into transfering. As an established college student,
they may ignore the fact that you have no HS diploma.

I think TAMS kids should be handed a diploma the second they
walk in the door, but that's just me.

[cheeser1]

i don't know if that's a good idea, people might go to tams with intentions to fail out/quit as soon as possible, just to be done early, and make no effort to ever make up for subjects they never wound up learning.

my best advice is get a GED, i figure that gives you better standing with alot of schools. and when you apply, write alot in the "Extra Information" section, or perhaps write them a whole separate letter explaining things (in detail, if necessary).

[kylienwylie]

i don't know if it is necessarily the smartest thing to do, but i did have a friend who left after her first year at tams and transferred from UNT to UT Arlington. as a tams student you are technically enrolled at UNT, and so if you transfer to another school - unless they actually bother to check up on you - they probably won't notice that you haven't graduated high school. in any event, my friend now has her bachelor's from Arlington and to my knowledge she never bothered to go back and get a GED or diploma.

[dr_mari0]

*nod* get a GED, if you have trouble getting into a 4 year college find a community college if possible, taking a few more general classes there can hopefully bump up your GPA and things like that, then on to "real" college.

well, thats my plan at least. if things don't improve with my parents. which they will. hopefully.

[christinadork]

i got kicked out last semester and i went to NCTC and now i have 30 hours and can transfer as a sophomore. there are some colleges in texas like St. Thomas in houston that don't care about high school diplomas but you can't like live on campus..and i'm still too young to get a GED but i've been taking online classes with texas tech to get a high school diploma and it's easy as shit i'm just sending them packets of work

[soyyam]

one college called me and said they'd accept me if i got a g.e.d. (it was brook's institute of photography if you were wondering) so i'm sure you could go somewhere, and you can always transfer if you don't like that school.