GED Stories

Name: Lubna
Age: 24
City and State: Jamaica, NY
Four years before I came to this country with my husband. He was born and raised here. After 3 years he passed away & my inlaws kicked me out. Now I’m alone with my son. That’s why I want to get my GED for my good career.

Name: Zainab
Age: 16
I wasn’t doing well in high school and when I graduated my grades were horrible. I started college, and after the first term the school said they couldn’t only accept the college placement test and they needed my grades from high school. After I finally got the confidence to give them my grades, [...]

Name: Anita
I’m very proud of myself to come this far. When I came to the United States I only had 7th grades of education, and English is not my first language. I didn’t graduate high school, because my parents were very poor, they couldn’t afford to send me to school. I was very embarrassed to [...]

Name: William
Age: 20
City and State: Frankfort, Il
I noticed I’m going to be in a dead end job forever if I don’t do something, and I want to make something of my life.

Name: Sha
Age: 19
City and State: Baltimore, MD
I am now 19 years of age and I have a 11 month old son. I want him to be able to have the best life that he can. I want to be able to teach him and tell him about life but I can’t with out a HSD [...]