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Originally Posted by Omniheart
alright i was an ok high school student. i basically tanked my senior year because of my family situation. i was having to go to school from 50 miles away or staying at friends house and going to school. i prob ended up with like 3.0 gpa. maybe a lil lower. i wasn't legally allowed to apply for college because i was basically an illegal alien for like a year lol. then i did community college for like a semester but figured i was good at poker so i basically stopped going there and supported my family that way for the last 5 years. i took the old SAT like the 1600 max one. i think i can sell my story pretty well though. i just have no idea how to do it. like what do i have to do to sell my story? i am not very good with writing so its very hard for me to express i guess in emails and letters. like if i could i guess get an interview or something?
given the SAT scores and GPA, you could proably get into most public universities in your state just based on the numbers. Depends on the state kind of.
Sometimes schools do admissions interviews, sometimes they want a written statement. Decide on a couple of schools that interest you and call either the office that handles adult students. It usually has a name like "continuing education" "office of adult learning" "office of non traditional students" something like that.
I think the idea of going to CC with the plan of xfering to a 4 year school is a bad one.
If a 4 year school wont let you in as a real student and you still want to go, you can register as a non-degree student in some places with a lot softer requirements, then convert to a regular student after you have some credits under your belt.
Where do you want to go to school... around where you live now? Any particular schools in mind?