GED Stories

Name: Hannah
Age: 17
City and State: Oklahoma
What motivated you to get your GED? I have always been on the more advanced side as far as students go. Throughout elementary school I was placed in accelerated programs. Instead of doing sixth grade, my parents chose to pull me out and opt for homeschooling, placing me a year [...]

Name: Lindsey
I decided to get my GED 16 years after leaving High School. I had gone straight from school into work, which I hated and didn’t enjoy, but I thought that was all I could do since I didn’t have a diploma. One day I decided to see if I could do something about [...]

Name: Mayra
City and State: Locust Grove, GA
What motivated you to get your GED? I had gone through a divorce and was left with nothing but my two kids. I realized that to keep my kids protected, and for them to have a good roll model, I had to show them that I can accomplish anything, [...]

Name: John
Age: 18
City and State: Charlotte, NC
What motivated you to get your GED? Well, I dropped out of high school so I could work more and move out of my dad’s house. I was taking all honors classes and was a B/C student. I would have easily graduated, but I could not take living at [...]

Name: Nadia

Age: 16

City and State: Buffalo, NY
What motivated you to get your GED? I decided to work on getting my GED because I’m home schooled, and I want to work on getting ahead in life. In regular schools there is always so much drama, it made it hard for me to concentrate on what really [...]

Name: Justin
Age: 18
City and State: Albany, New York
What motivated you to get your GED? I dropped out of high school the beginning of 10th grade. To make a long story short, school was just a complete waste of my time. It wasn’t until now that I began appreciating education, and had the courage to enroll [...]

Name: Andrew
Age: 17
City and State: Las Vegas, Nevada
What motivated you to get your GED? I dropped out of high school at the end of tenth grade, but you could say I dropped out the first day of the ninth grade. I didn’t have the motivation or anyone to push me to do my work, I [...]

Name: Nina
Age: 17
State: Rhode Island
What motivated you to get your GED? I dropped out of school at the age 16 as a freshman. I stood home all day doing nothing. I didn’t even want to work. One day I woke up and I told myself this isn’t what I wanted. I wanted to have BIG [...]

Name: Zaher
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Name: Joshua
Age: 23
City and State: Austin, TX
What motivated you to get your GED? I obtained my GED because I was tired of dead end retail jobs. I knew the only way to live the life I wanted to was to get into college.