GED (high school equivalency test)

[adam_jorgensen]

Has anybody here ever had to write the GED high school equivalency test to get their high school diploma? I am going to write this to get my high school diploma seen as though I'm home schooled so that I can get accepted into the college I want to attend and have some formal proof that I did complete high school. I just want to know if which would be better, just getting the diploma from completing high school, or writing the GED and getting a good mark? And I want to know if bigger airline companies will recognize it and see it as equivalent to completing high school in regular public school. I am completing high school through home school, but because I get no diploma or really any kind of record I went to high school, I take this test and I won't have to worry about that? It almost makes you wonder why people even go to school for 13 somewhat years when they can just write this test, complete the study guide in a few months and just take the test and pass and your done. I hope there aren't any catches to this or any scams of some kind. This will replace my math course as I have probably reached my peak level for math at my grade level (hard trig, trig identities and stuff like that.) But is this a good idea? I almost feel as though I'm rolling a pair of dice and hoping for the best to happen. I want to know if I'm doing the right thing here and that some day a major airline company will still hire me even though I just did the GED but it is the same right? A bit after, I will also be writing the SAT so that would be 2 big tests done. You can't tell me that after writing the two and passing them that nobody's going to look at me. Just want to make sure that this is the right thing to do.

 

[Maxwell Smart]

I Get me dat Hi skool deploma- I stoodied almust tree hyours 4 da tist- that d E G test- It ain't no gimme test kneether- gool luck!- MAX

 

[Wiggums]

Since your getting a four your degree nobody will care about your high school. Just do what the other home schoolers do to get into college.

 

[pilotyip]

GED

I know a guy got hired by a major with a GED.

 

[XLR8]

a friend of mine used to fly B747's (freight) and later CRJ's with only a GED!

Good Luck!

 

[GIVJoc]

Well I bailed out of a really bad public hi skrool in the eleventh grade, parents tried in vain to get me in a local private school so I just decided to take my GED and hit the job market. Landed a job at the local FBO pumping gas was bitten in a big way by the aviation bug and later that summer was taking PPL lessons.

My instructor was a P/T King Air jock corporate/charter dude and he steered me into the mindset of becoming a pro pilot.

Talked to a counselor at my community college found out what I needed to do to enroll, SAT and entrance exams, took’em, did well, started that fall.

Got my PPL, moved on to one of the big aviation colleges, graduated cum laude in field. I all of my interviews I’ve never been asked about the GED other than for a copy of it.

If you stay the course and don’t give up I see nothing wrong with it, but if you even for a moment think you might stray from college then stay with a traditional diploma.

GIV

 

[rfeathe1]

My daughter never graduated from high school nor took a GED test but she still graduated from Texas A & M with a masters degree. When she first enrolled she answered all questions truthfully & no one ever asked her about high school.

 

[varicam]

No doubt a typical home-schooled student is far better educated than a typical high school student. Ignore the one juvenile comment and enroll in college any way you can. No one is going to care how you got there.

 

[JJJ]

enroll in college any way you can. No one is going to care how you got there.

Unless you go to the University of Michigan

 

[bobbysamd]

GED v. a real diploma

No one will care how you graduated from high school after you attend and graduate from college. I'm sure your province in Canada has provisions for issuing high school equivalency to home-schooled students. Just follow these provisions and, as others said, no one will care how you entered college. Just be sure that the college(s) in which you're interested will accept a high school equivalency in lieu of a real diploma.

You should also check out transcript requirements.

 

[propilot150]

As long as you have the ability to learn, and you want something ( like flying ) then nothing can stop you from getting your goal! I know a few pilots who have GEDs right now one is flying for Netjet, and another is a CFII and just landed a job with Air Wisconsin. See it dont matter if you got a GED. Enter college and as long as you got that degree , noone will even ask So you dont have nothing to worry about! I even know a pilot who flys a C210 for Air Net, he flys cancled checks out of BTR to MOB al the time and he doesnt even have a colleeg degree ( dont get wrong air net is easy to get on with ) but goes to prove a point.
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Cap'n Landry