GED Stories

Name: Freda
Age: 53
City and State: Oakland, Ca.
What motivated you to get your GED? I want to go online to Grand Canyon University to get my Bachelor Degree for Business Administration. I have to get my GED to get my financial aid.

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: Abdiqani
Age: 33
City and State: Renton, WA
I would like to take a GED diploma because I want to go to college, and they told me you have to have either high school or GED to start at the college. This is why I need to get a GED.

Name:      Serenity
Age:      19
City and State:     Springfield, MA
I had studied off and on with your programs for a few months, until I thought I was ready. Then I went and booked the test. I tried my best to study during the busy months, and when the time came I definitely felt more confident [...]

Name:      Jason
Age:      23
City and State:     Kent, OH
Well, as you already know, my name is Jason and I am from Kent, Ohio. I live here with my beautiful girlfriend and my beautiful son also known as Jason. I currently do not work, but when I do I am usually stuck working in a [...]

Name:      Erika
Age:      17
City and State:     New Paltz, NY
Hi my name is Erika from NY. I’m 17 and currently had a baby in Aug. I’m trying to get my GED because I really want to go to college and have a good future for me and my son.

I went to a private christian school in Missouri called Heartland Christian Academy for the last three years of high school. I was behind from being in public school and so I worked extra hard to get caught up. I studied 5-8 hours every night and on holidays and weekends for those 3 years and [...]

I am 38 years old, married with 4 children. I enjoy reading, cooking, and helping others. Most of the time I am just with my family. I left school because I was having a baby, and I did not return back to school.

I am a 20 year old African American, I dropped out of high school when my girlfriend got knocked up with my little boy. I played sports at the time also, I love to learn new and exciting things everyday if I can. I’d love to be able to sign up for this program so [...]