GED Stories

Name: Sotheavy
City and State: Los Angeles, California
What motivated you to get your GED? My cousin and my family motivated me to get the GED. I am an Asian who is now living in the USA, and I want to continue my studies in college. However, I don’t have enough money for tuition. The only way [...]

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: 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: Emily
Age: 15
City and State: flo/mo
What motivated you to get your GED? I am so sick of being in school, and the teachers I have make me feel stupid. No matter how much I study or how hard I try, I just cannot live up to their expectations. I am not failing anything. I am [...]

Name: Jacqueline
Age: 16
City and State: Ft. Loramie, Ohio
What motivated you to get your GED? I am very mature for my age because I grew up around only adults, therefore I do a lot of adult things. I am currently home schooled and hold a part-time (almost full-time) job, and I want out of school for [...]

Name: Dominique
Age: 16
City and State: Baton Rouge, LA
The reason I want my GED is because I’m in 8th grade, and that’s bad, and I need a good job. My family and friends help me, and they were all saying the same thing, to go get my GED. I have problem in math and social [...]

Name:      Watika
Age:      17
City and State:     Winchester, Virginia
When I first started High School as a Freshman, I was very overwhelmed and excited. Then as I grew older, and went to different grade levels, each year I started to slack. I thought I had made the biggest mistake ever, by slacking my Junior year, [...]

Name:      Shanell
Age:     17
City and State:     Chicago
Hi, my name is Shanell, and I was enrolled in an alternative high school called Prologue and I was supposed to graduate in 2009, but since the credit score has changed it’s going to take a another year to graduate.

Name: Kala
Age: 15
City and State: Northport, Al.
I about to be 16 years old. Most people think if you drop out, you’re stupid. Sometimes that might be the case but not in mine. I wanna drop out, get my GED, get a job, and go to college early. I would be going to college either way, [...]

I attend Northampton West. I am in the 10th grade and supposed to be a senior this year, and I feel that school is not for me. So instead of me dropping out and not trying to do anything with my life I want to recieve an high school diploma so I can at least [...]