How bad can a GED hurt your "game"?

[Michele l'Arcangelo]

How bad can going through GED classes instead of high school classes hurt your game during high school years? - If a girl asks you, "Where do you go to school"

and

How bad can having your GED instead of your diploma hurt your game in college years and beyond? If a girl asks you, "Where did you go to high school?"

(Note that its not a GED to drop out completely... its GED to finish high school early and go to college early, due to failing a year in middle school and high school.)

This isn't just about girls, it could be about friends and mainly jobs (teen or "real" jobs, summer jobs, etc.) also.

Discuss.

 

[DJDoomage]

Normally they dont care about high school, college and beyond. But black people might look at your past, but who wants to work for blacks anyway. Jobs and everything else is not about where you went to school, its about what you can do AND most importantely how you can present it.

 

[DJMaC23]

wtf is up with this racist pencil **** up above??

Anyways, it really should not matter, especially if you are getting it to finish high school early.

 

[Michele l'Arcangelo]

Anyways, it really should not matter, especially if you are getting it to finish high school early.

Not necessarily finishing school early though, more like catching up with my Senior friends who are graduating. If anything, I'd have 1-2 more years of high school after this year, and I'm supposed to be graduating this year already.

I'm already in GED classes since beginning of second semester, so I'm not going to get any credits for this whole entire semester. I'd say I'm currently a Sophomore with +2 or 3 credits, maybe more.

I don't want to get too much into the high school talk, I don't want this moved to the high school forum.

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So if they ask you, "Where do/did you go to school?"

What's a honest reply that doesn't make you seem like a dropout and without beating around the bush?

Of course you won't sound insecure about it and be like, "I go to blah... but I'm taking GED classes... (then before she even says anything, start giving excuses/reasons why)"

 

[Michele l'Arcangelo]

bam!

 

[Abbott]

Did you ever attend normal high school at all? You must either live out of the U.S., or perhaps the system is different where you live (even if within the U.S.).

If you have, then when you finish the GED, and someone asks, just say your school, since it would be technically true. People, if they ask at all, are just being friendly. In my experience, no one cares about whether you went to the Prom, or even if you were on a sports team.

I wouldn't worry about it. I remember that I absolutely HATED high school. I wish that I dropped out at age 16, got the GED at 18 (earliest time people can get it), and then go to college. In high school, except for perhaps Algebra and maybe some basic writing skills, maybe Geometry, you don't learn anything useful anyway. It's a propaganda machine/bloat of big government, and essentially a place for teenagers to go for the better part of a workday.

Suppose you don't attend normal high school at all. You could lie. It's dishonest, but it makes you look better (due to the slight bias against GEDs) and I don't see how it hurts anyone. Just don't lie to prospective employers, in case they choose to do a background check.

 

[Jay Jay]

Two guys I know very well never went to normal school. One of them was so violent as a child he had to go to a special school. The other had some really full on type of dyslexia and then poor kid, who actually had a really ****ing high IQ had to go to a school with disabled kids.

The violent guy became the biggest alpha stud I have ever known. When asked about school he would just say, "I hosplitalised my principal when I was 10 and wasn't allowed to normal school after that." He worked on himself and became the most together dude I have ever known, his pulling power with chicks is unbelieveable and he's annoying to hang with coz his phone NEVER stops he has so many friends. He's now a tradesman, making good money and engaged to a beautiful intelligent woman.

The Dyslexic dude has a load of friends, a beautiful girlfriend and owns his own successul business. He took a cue off the violent guy (we all grew up together) and never tries to hide the fact he's illiterate. In fact he used to pick up chicks like that, "excuse me, can you help me, I'm illiterate, can you tell me what this says?" (His nickname by the way is Snake because he has the most ENORMOUS **** you have ever seen, so that might help too! LOL)

Anyway, no one has asked me what school I went to since I was actually at school. No one gives a **** about that as you get older.

But the point is that no one is perfect and if failing a year at school is the biggest problem you have you really have nothing to worry about.

Our imperfections are only limitations if we allow them to be.

JJ

 

[Ripper]

What's a GED?

 

[Michele l'Arcangelo]

Two guys I know...

...allow them to be.

JJ

Wow thanks, that was really good. Inspiring for sure.

This is something I'll have to keep in mind.

 

[Abbott]

What's a GED?

It's the equivalent of a high school diploma, for people who didn't finish traditional high school. It's just for drop outs, as far as I know. I do know that apparent there's a restriction that you can't get it before your "high school class" graduates (it could just be an Illinois thing). So suppose that you attend high school from 97-99, and then drop out. If you hadn't, you would have graduated in May 2001. So if you want a GED, you couldn't get it before May 2001. (I think this is stupid...if someone wants to get a GED at age 16 and can pass the test, they should be allowed. But our bloat government doesn't want to do that, because it'd cost teaching jobs).

It has negative connotations since it means that you dropped out before, and apparently there's never a good reason to drop out, supposedly.

 

[Michele l'Arcangelo]

Nice, I'm glad older people see GED the same way as I do... instead of that biased BS.

But all that outside bias is what made me have to ask the question in the first place.

It's just for drop outs, as far as I know....

...I do know that apparent there's a restriction that you can't get it before your "high school class" graduates (it could just be an Illinois thing)...

...(I think this is stupid...if someone wants to get a GED at age 16 and can pass the test, they should be allowed. But our bloat government doesn't want to do that, because it'd cost teaching jobs).

Actually at my school... it goes like this... you have to be considered a complete dropout of high school to get your GED... even my parents agreed that I should just get my GED considering my high school stats...

But no, I'm not allowed to start college the next semester... I have to finish this year and waste away in GED "classes" without a teacher... sitting, staring at a computer screen at GED "class", "learning" from a 5 year old software with the people who were kicked out of school. I'm not even a bad kid and i have to be treated like a kid under 18 kicked out of school.

They only want to keep you in school because "no-one-left-behind" law, and the money they get per student.

 

[Teflon_Mcgee]

I got mine at 16. I've always felt somewhat ashamed when the subject was brought up. I really have no reason to.

I used to try and qualify myself when people asked but stopped doing that.

So far, I can't really say it's hurt my game. I've done alot more than most HS graduates and still plan to obtain a masters in engineering (currently a sophmore).

But I also have much more life experience and a very impressive life resume at the age of 23 than most people will have at 30.
And certainly much more than the average 22 year old who is just barely entering the real world for the first time (I started at 17.)

To answer the O.P's question: If you just plan to drop out and get your GED then yes it will hurt your game if you ever expect to get a quality women.

But if you look at it as simply a stepping stone to become greater then it wont matter one bit.

Besides if you're in college and somebody asks where you go to school why not tell them what school? If they ask where you graduated say "I didn't. So what's for dinner anyway?"

 

[Teflon_Mcgee]

Nice, I'm glad older people see GED the same way as I do... instead of that biased BS.

But all that outside bias is what made me have to ask the question in the first place.



Actually at my school... it goes like this... you have to be considered a complete dropout of high school to get your GED... even my parents agreed that I should just get my GED considering my high school stats...

But no, I'm not allowed to start college the next semester... I have to finish this year and waste away in GED "classes" without a teacher... sitting, staring at a computer screen at GED "class", "learning" from a 5 year old software with the people who were kicked out of school. I'm not even a bad kid and i have to be treated like a kid under 18 kicked out of school.

They only want to keep you in school because "no-one-left-behind" law, and the money they get per student.

Yo only have to attend school until 16 years old right? Why are you getting your GED from the school? Just go down the local community college and take the test. They can't stop you. It's not lke they're going to do some kind of background check to make sure you're finished with schol and your class has graduated and all that crap. They'll ask for your ID and their $40 and blamo!

 

[Flabbergasped?]

I go to Princeton, so I can't relate.

*e-gloat*