GED and high SAT score - my chances?
Q. I'm supposed to be in my senior year but just dropped out and enrolled in a GED course. I never really went to high school. I went a few times a week in my Freshman/Sophmore years (In Bronx Science, a world renown high school with more Nobel Prize winners than any school in the world) and I basically stopped going March of my sophmore year. I still went, but like once a month. I have almost 300 absences on my transcript and because I still enrolled in 7 courses a semester, I continued to get 40s in them, resulting in a 57 average (my GPA would be 0 - good thing they don't give negative numbers). I have a high SAT score though. Scored 1350 my first time (V640,M710) and just took it again yesterday (probably be at least 1450. I did much better this time.) I'm taking 3 SATIIs this november. What are my chances of getting into a good 4 year college (have no intention of going to two year schools)? The ones I'm looking at are: UC Santa Barbara (or Santa Cruz), Rutgers -New Brunswick, Florida State, and NYU (reach!). So what are my chances with a GED (hopefully I get a high GED score) and a high SAT score? Most colleges still need my high school transcript and I'm worried they'll see my 0GPA (even though I didn't even attend any of those classes).
A. I've heard from various sources that Simons Rock is a socially stunted school due to the fact that the students are all 16-17. Although they fight the image, the school is probably part highschool, part college in the way they treat the students. Also, the school has a very PC, self-righteous leaning. I'd rather go to a larger, more mature school, although with colleges these days, it's hard to avoid the rampant PCness that exists at the schools I can get into. Anyway, I think I'm applying to these schools: Hampshire Occidental Reed SUNY - Stonybrook, Geneseo, Binghampton (my college counselor says I won't be accepted at any of these 3) Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (High average SAT score, math science oriented, no girls, located in hick country Indiana) If you guys can suggest anything else, I'd really appreciate it, and look into it. I'm looking for schools that will risk accepting a highschool dropout with high test scores, be interesting, and/or have strong math/physics programs. I'd love to go to Reed if I could get in. It seems to offer a superb education with smart students, high rate of PhDs, and a very liberal environment (perhaps a little on the self righteous/PC side that is annoying, but well worth the tradeoff with respect to freedom on campus).
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