Not in the US.
Generally, it is. Did you mean something else?
Umm… could you explain what you mean by, “Not in the US.”? Are you saying there is an exam which you would call “the high school equivalency exam” in the US but the GED is not it? Or are you saying no such exam exists in the US? Perhaps there is some third interpretation of your sentence which I have not thought of.
As near as I can tell, the letters G.E.D. can refer either to the test itself (actually four of them known collectively as the General Education Development tests) or the certificate received after completing said test or a similar one (colloquially known as a General Equivalency Degree, but often officially known as a Certificate of High School Equivalency). Both the test(s) and the certificates definitely exist in the United States.
I stand properly corrected. I didn’t know the initials GED referred to the test itself.
Well I think officially they don’t stand for anything any more.
That’s how it was way back in the dark ages when I was in high school. There weren’t any AP classes. You just took the tests when they were scheduled. They saved me a few credits in college (saving on credits = saving money), but I missed the test for my best subject (English). Damn.
Why did she want to avoid taking the SAT or ACT? Stress? I ask because the scores aren’t just a factor in admissions but often figure into merit scholarship awards. But if she was really stressed about taking it and didn’t need scholarship money, I guess I can see why she wouldn’t want to bother.
I don’t know the details, but as an undergraduate she didn’t need scholarship money.
Now that she’s a graduate student, she is a TA.
Generally, for a highly selective school you expect congruence with SAT/ACT and AP.
And for a less selective school, the teat scores alone can demonstrate you can do the work.
Are you sure about that?
If you can afford to have your kid’s photograph taken on a rowing machine and pay a significant bribe to the crew coach, you can probably get your kid into college anywhere.
Often, but it depends on the student.
If, at seventeen, I had been applying to a college that wanted a portfolio of completed work, I could have submitted, among other things, a video of plays I had written, directed, and/or performed in, scripts of plays I had written, published* works of poetry and short fiction (which would have neatly provided evidence of not only my work as a writer, but as an editor and even a typist!), probably all padded out a little with certificates and awards I had received for things like math and science to prove I was what we used to call “well-rounded.”
N.B.: I was not home-schooled.
- to the extent that my high school literary magazine counts as “published.”