What is the easiest school to get into in the South East USA, Public school....  I did poorly in Highschool, but now im interested in going to college, does anyone know a half way decent cheap easy to get into college.    And you DONT NEED SATS or you DONT have to be in the top of your class!!
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Actually, most community colleges do not require the SAT. So as the first person said, you can get your associate's degree from a community college, prove yourself that way via good grades, then apply to transfer to a four year school. Because you'll have had your associates, they won't require the SAT from you at that point. \n\nMy sister did this, in Florida.
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Homeschooling is still a very new concept. Universities, colleges, and the military are really beginning to make the adjustment finally. We had no problems with college admissions officials this year with my son. As a matter of fact he has been downright chased for admissions. LOL. \n\nFor admissions purposes, the ACT or SAT score weighs the heaviest in most schools. That is a level playing field whether you are homeschooled or otherwise. The transcript is often treated with a bit more suspicion for homeschoolers because the transcript is not objective and nuetral. When the parent does the training, makes the transcript, and has a decided interest in that transcipt looking good for college admissions, this is understandable. But don't assume that they do not also look with suspision upon the transcripts from public and private schools. Grade inflation is rampant in schools. I know a senior here in town who is in being mainstreamed vis special ed. She cannot read a book beyond the second grade level, yet she is graduating with a B average. Now that is grade inflation. Colleges will look more closely at the correlation between the ACT or SAT score and grade point. If they are wildly out of balance with each other, grade inflation is often assumed and dismissed. \n\nAs far as neighbors that say you never do school, remember that they are assuming the traditional 8am to 3pm, 9 month schedule that public school kids do. The same little old ladies that tut-tutting my cruelty at having my kids school through the summer seemed to have forgotten we did that when I give them a week off at a non-traditional time in the middle of the winter. LOL. You just have to take it all with a grain of salt. \n\nEducate when you can. Let people hear about the neat opportunities you get because you homeschool. That will help. For instance . . .\n\nI took a group of homeschoolers up to page in the state Senate and House after out government co-op course. They wouldn't have been able to do that in our public school because we live so far away and there are limits to how many pages from each senator's and representative's district they can have each day. \n\nSome of the homeschoolers in our area get some really interesting biology experience because they take their biology course right out onto the farm and apply it hands-on. We spent a whole summer as a homeschool co-op learning about stream studies in which we monitored a stream (chemical analysis of the water, monitoring macroorganism levels, observing crayfish behavior and the frog life cycle in the in-house lab tanks, etc. They plotted out all the data where able to realize trends that only such a long project could have revealed. They were doing things that real scientists do. Most public schools will not be able to have daily, easy access to a creek that is undisturbed by human activity aside from the monitoring.\n\nMy kids have had the opportunities to go lightyears beyond what they could have done in public school which computer skills. They each have their own computers and use them for most of their schoolwork during the day. My oldest son is making some money with building and repairing computers which he taught himself. All three of my oldest children run their own forums and webpages. My 11 year old just spend his birthday money from us and grandparents ($60) to upgrade to a commercial server because he needed more power and room that what the free sites could offer. He and a team of other kids from across the US are working together of their own initiative to make a game mod together. He is the project leader, he is doing the html and design work for the project website, and he makes the levels. The other kids are working on making the models, testing designs, and working out puzzles and storyline. Remember - my son is only 11 and he is doing all this of his own initiative as part of a school project. The one hour at most with only limitted access to a computer at school, p
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It seems as though you are an excellent, all around student and individual and would have a good shot of getting into any of these schools.  Therefore, what is the best school for you?  \n\nThere are a many questions that you'll need to ask yourself:\n1.  What subject do you want to major in when in college?  Are there a few? - Make sure that any university that you attend has all of the different majors that you are interested in.  That way, if you try one out and find out that you do not like it, you have the other options.  Also, is the major a good program at the schools that you want to attend?\n\n2.  Do you want a big or small university?  Many times small university are look down upon because they may not have the name of a Harvard or Yale.  However, big and small university are great.  The biggest question is... do you want and/or need attention from your professors?  Bigger university professors may not be able to give students individual attention that so many students need.  Smaller universities are able to give a lot of personal attention, allowing students to contact professors any time with questions and/or advice.\n\n3.  Location, location, location!  Will you like the location that the university is in?  City versus College town?  Weather... do you want warm weather where it never snows or are you okay at a university that it snows much of winter?  \n\n4.  Does the school have the extracurricular activities that you are interested in?  Academics is not all that you are at a university for... college is all about the experience as well.  Will you have the opportunity to get involved and are the activities that you want to participate in available on the campus?\n\n5.  Do you like the campus and university?  This you'll never know until you walk onto that particular campus.  If you can, try to visit any school that you are really interested in.  College admissions representatives are paid to tell you have great the university will be.  In addition, all of the papers and viewbooks that you get from the universities will show nothing but pretty pictures.  However, you'll never know if it is the right place for you until you step on the campus.  You'll probably know within the first 5 minutes of being on the campus if you'll like it or not!  All colleges and universities do campus tours - just call the admissions office and they'll set it up for you.\n\nGood luck!
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Graduating! I hated high school because I had to move after my sophmore year from Maryland to Atlanta, GA. I didn't like the atmosophere at the school and I was definitely an outsider. I was so uncomfortable that during my Junior and Senior years, I didn't step one foot inside the cafeteria to eat lunch...not one time. I just stood in the hall until lunch was over.
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My suggestio is to go to find a community college. Community colleges don not require ACT's or SAT's and for the most part all you need is a high school diploma. Even if you were to take the tests now, you would have needed excelent grades in high school to get into a state school, or university. you'd be competing with many high school seniors who have been successful the last 12 years of their lives.
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first you have to get a good score on your ACT test. and if your out of state then you have to score well on your SAT. besides that don't try to write like me, they want good reasons, points, and other things in your essay that you will send them. your grades from highschool only represents what you are capable of at the moment, they really look at other things such as your extra curricular activities and how you manage to balance it with your academics. me and my friend got into michigan easily. the hard part is how long can you stay there without messing up and droping out.
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dang dustin. you can get into college with those scores. but if ure trying to get into an elite college such as USC (since ure in southern cali) what were the numbers? the ones out of 800
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Very true, Princeton has one of the nation's lowest acceptance rates. A firend of mine just was accepted with a 4.0 at a prestigious high school and an excellent SAT score which I do not recall but will not speculate on. But agreed, if you know someone who is very important you obviously are of value to the school and will have a higher liklihood of acceptance. Also, I recently read that the SAT score is now the most important "section" of a student's life they look at so I recomend something very near perfection.
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I would say it would be easier to just sign up and take the ged in your area.  if you're worried you won't remember all the math and stuff you need to know, then your local bookstore should have a ged prep book.  that way you can brush up without having to actually go to the ged classes.  i'm not sure how the at home high school diplomas work, but each state has different requirements for high school graduation so i wouldn't trust it.  if you are thinking of going onto a community or technical college neither one would give you an advantage over another and at a 4 yr school the ged might actually help you qualify for more schloarships for "non traditional" students.  good luck
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Same problem..so I hear ya.  I also however, don't have the determination to get in there do my thing in school and finish it out.  The best thing I did as an eye opener was make an appointment to talk to one of the counselors at the school.  They did assessments with me, and tests to see what I was good at and in and what I would do awful to be in.  This narrowed out things..and brought things to light that I probably shouldn't do when I actually considered or tried them before (no wonder they didn't work).  So in the end I was left with a much smaller number of career/school choices to research more and choose from.  We even talked about things in my personal life that may interfere or why I felt the way I did about school.  It helped me out tremendously..good luck!
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Can you really get one from the SAT?  I thought they only gave out those National Merit things for the PSAT.  If you want to do well on the SAT (which isn't a bad idea), try studying some of the prep books or taking a preparation class.  They're generally helpful if you lack the self-discpline of studying tons of vocab for no reason and reading quite a bit to get through those sections.
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It depends on which schools you are considering applying to, but generally speaking, grades are always the most important. Most schools have a minimum score on the SAT or ACT to get in. I never even took the SAT's, but I had a 4.2 GPA, and a good ACT score, so I not only got accepted but was offered a scholarship.
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Not well.  720 on PSAT's and 860 on SAT's.  I felt as though I should not even go to college.  However, I did, and it went very well.  I graduated with a 3.5 GPA in economics, have a job paying over 70K a year and moving up.  SAT's mean something, but not everything... you can make it no matter what.  I did!
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East Carolina is a great school, I have a brother there. I just moved from NC.  But you need to have your head on straight because its considered a "party school"  but the school over all is great.  If you are interested in NC schools others to consider are UNCPembroke.  Small but great programs and small enough classes to be noticed and get special attention from professors if needed. This is were I got my B.S. in Biology from.  UNCWilmington is also good.  Then there is always the bigger schools like Chapel Hill and Duke.  Appalachian State in Boone is also good, I have a brother there too.
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I believe there is documentation that home schoolers often score higher on college entrance exams than other students.  However, I don't believe colleges pay any attention to whether their applicants went to public, private, or home school.  Your applicatin will be judged on your academic ability, not how you got your education.  Good luck with your college career.  Of course, if you have questions about this, your best source of information would be the admissions office of the college you are considering.
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Becuase most of the public state universities _have_ to take students from that state, provided that they make some sort of minimum requirement, usually some form of combined GPA and SAT.  Now GPA's from high schools can range from "informative" to "absolutely worthless" with regards to what they say about the student who got them.  Basically they have to admit a lot of students, who to put it bluntly, have no business being at an institude of higher learning in the first place.\n\nReally, the universities don't have "weed-out" the students, as the student's tend to "weed-out" themselves.
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i loved it. best time of my life (so far!). try getting involved in some clubs or activities. maybe play some IM sports. if you're living on a freshman floor, make an effort to meet people. its really the people you meet that make college worthwhile.