GED Stories

Name: Melissa
Age: 31
State: Texas
What motivated you to get your GED? After working in a restaurant for so many years, I finally realized that this is not the career I wanted. I wanted to be a successful business woman. As I got older, I got wiser about what kind of life style I wanted. Fast food [...]

Name: NaSha
Age: 21
City and State: Opelika, AL
Well, I am actually getting some material for my husband. He got kicked out of school when he was in the ninth grade. And I am helping him study.

Name: Korina
Age: 42
City and State: Lapeer, MI
What motivated you to get your GED? It seems that I am a typical mom. Always doing for my family, and leaving my interests, goals, and dreams on the back burner. I became a mom at a very young age. When my son was born he suffered a traumatic [...]

Name: Shanna
Age: 29
What motivated you to get your GED? I have been studying off and on for years but I just felt content with how my life was going, I didn’t try as hard as I should have. I have a pretty good job even without a GED. I finally realized I wanted to take [...]

Name: Sakina
What motivated you to get your GED? I finally realized when I enrolled in Devry University that I have to take the GED, due to my high school gave me the certificated. If it wasn’t for Devry University, I would have never known about it.

Name: Chinedu
Age: 18
City and State: Bronx, New York
I came into the U.S.A as an undergraduate from high school, final year to graduate I left my country. Now I’m anticipating forward to get my GED diploma in order to get to college and finish my program for my future projection.

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.