Alright, So I graduated high school on 6/9/2012 and my whole plan was to just work and make money and shit because I was an ignorant little fuck (still am) and didn't think ahead about the rest of my fucking life. So now here I am today, and I'm trying to go to University in the fall a four year institution. I'm a smart individual and I can write a kickass essay. I just need to know if there is any four year institution anywhere in the fucking USA that will accept someone a year after they graduated high school? Can anyone help me out? The goal here is to not attend community college I know all about that its just right now I'm trying to get to a university if you know what I mean.
nope
there are none
your life is over
sell your body for cocaine
Loads of people wait a year after high school to make money for college, as far as I know, none of them would reject you on that alone.
That's what I'm doing, I don't have the money for college now. :v:
If you don't get into a university just go for a community college or work for the mean time, one thing I will say though is that job hunting is a bitch, so good luck with that.
You can have all these damn letters from thousands of engineering universities that keep wanting me to attend them.
I fucking hate receiving them in the mail.
At this point, I just don't see it improving much. I feel bad for telling you this, but I think there is really only one answer. It might be hard, but do what needs to be done. Spare yourself the hardship of the rest of your life.
If it is any consolation, no one will miss you.
Just joking people! Calm down.
[QUOTE=draugur;39813164]You can have all these damn letters from thousands of engineering universities that keep wanting me to attend them.
I fucking hate receiving them in the mail.[/QUOTE]
Those are really just spam. If it's from the ACT, they don't actually get information about your scores whatsoever.
any small time 4 year thats still takin applications?
That's a silly question, OP. Of course there are schools that'll accept you even though you graduated a year ago. If not, then we wouldn't be seeing people in their 20's-40's attending classes, sometimes even older. I just started attending a tech school even though I graduated from high school 2 years ago. Just be patient, and don't stress out. Schools are always accepting applications for the next semester/term/whatever segments of time they go by. Just be on the ball.
Also don't be shy, asking your parents for help may be a good idea too. My dad helped me with all my college-bound requirements, even though he never went and was going in just as clueless as I was.
I know here in Australia it's easy to get in to university, even if you finished school a few years ago. Uni courses require an "ATAR" which is a mark you get for finishing high school, or by doing a special course at another education institution. At my uni I know there are at least two options of getting an ATAR if you don't have one or don't have a high enough one for a certain course, and that's Newstep (if you finished school and didn't get a high enough ATAR) and Open Foundation (if you haven't been to school in ages or never got an ATAR I believe).
Yeah most of that stuff is probably irrelevant to you, but universities will try their best to let you get in. It would be too late to enrol for this year I imagine, but you should be able to enrol for next year and any universities you are interested in attending should include pathways to getting into courses if you don't have sufficient previous qualifications.
[QUOTE=joshjet;39813203]Those are really just spam. If it's from the ACT, they don't actually get information about your scores whatsoever.[/QUOTE]
Not clue where they come from, I honestly just don't want them. I have use them as kindling for my fireplace for about a year now.
You should still be able to apply normally, it's fine. They'll require your transcirpt and stuff and youll probably have to include why you took a year off but many people do it. No big deal. Dont stress you didnt fuck up your life.
I'm pretty much in the exact same boat as you, buddy. I graduated in May of 2011. I went to a technical college for a year, yeah, a year, and only took two classes, which cost about $800 and got me absolutely nowhere. I've just been working and it's all I'm motivated to do now. I wouldn't mind getting back in school, but we seem to always think in the now and not in the future. I would be in college right now if it weren't just out of this world expensive. I'd rather make thousands of dollars than borrowing it, and then having to work my ass off to pay it all back. Basically, I'm just delaying school. There's no time limit for college, but it depends if you want a good job or not, apparently. Nowadays it seems that college degrees aren't necessarily helpful to get a good job, and then other places it's all they care about. This world is very confusing.
op, you can wait 100 years after highschool to apply to a university, and your chances of acceptance are going to be the same. you're not fucking up your life at all op, in fact, you're living much smarter than a majority of kids on the US. rushing into a university is the worst possible choice you can make.
If I may ask OP, why not community college? Is it a money issue or what? There's absolutely nothing wrong with going to community college and transferring, it's what I plan to do since I just got rejected from a college I planned to go to.
My family is moving in June so I wanna be secure in a UNI this fall
I wish I could write a kickass essay :<
[QUOTE=Klammyxxl;39815367]op, you can wait 100 years after highschool to apply to a university, and your chances of acceptance are going to be the same. you're not fucking up your life at all op, in fact, you're living much smarter than a majority of kids on the US. rushing into a university is the worst possible choice you can make.[/QUOTE]
Especially with all the crippling debt a lot of them get afterwards, or getting the wrong degree. I graduated in June 2011 and took a year break after graduation to take care of my dad before he passed away and lived in NYC for a bit to help me think over my options and see what life is like on my own. Currently going to a community college right now and I know what I want to major in unlike the majority of people that are in class with me, a lot of them seem like they want to change their stuff already. For me it's easy making plans, but making it work seems to always be the hard part, but I do recommend not rushing to get into college, think about what you want to go into and explore a bit and look for work in the meantime. You'll be a lot better off if you go into college with money and have better knowledge than you did than when you left high school, obviously don't wait too long but 1-2 years isn't bad for a break. Plus with the people I met out in NYC I now have connections so when I save up the leftovers of my Fafsa money and money I make from working I can move back and get some help from them to get settled safely into the city. You just got to do a little exploring and make some pretty large plans work in the process, going into college straight away without doing something extra beforehand can really fuck you over. You're out of school for now, here's your chance to go exploring before you end up graduating and having to work weeks on end with no time for that kind of stuff anymore.
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[url]http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/nurturing-resilience/201103/why-young-people-shouldn-t-go-college-least-right-away[/url]
Here's a good article for you. And if anyone asks you what you've been doing that isn't college and they try to put you down for not rushing to get in, ignore them. Chances are you'll probably have more wisdom than them because of exploring your options.
but what four year institution would accept me though i'm so lost
If you're lost with that just go to community college for now, clearly you haven't really looked around for universities if you don't know of any that will accept you.
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But if you really want to find out which ones will, send in applications to the ones in your state.
[QUOTE=Antdawg;39813529]I know here in Australia it's easy to get in to university, even if you finished school a few years ago. Uni courses require an "ATAR" which is a mark you get for finishing high school, or by doing a special course at another education institution. At my uni I know there are at least two options of getting an ATAR if you don't have one or don't have a high enough one for a certain course, and that's Newstep (if you finished school and didn't get a high enough ATAR) and Open Foundation (if you haven't been to school in ages or never got an ATAR I believe).
Yeah most of that stuff is probably irrelevant to you, but universities will try their best to let you get in. It would be too late to enrol for this year I imagine, but you should be able to enrol for next year and any universities you are interested in attending should include pathways to getting into courses if you don't have sufficient previous qualifications.[/QUOTE]
ATAR is only used in nsw and vic afaik
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but other states have similar rankings. Its really easy to get into university in australia, Im doing a bachelor of IT and I failed math and english in my high school finals.
[QUOTE=Klammyxxl;39815367]op, you can wait 100 years after highschool to apply to a university, and your chances of acceptance are going to be the same. you're not fucking up your life at all op, in fact, you're living much smarter than a majority of kids on the US. rushing into a university is the worst possible choice you can make.[/QUOTE]
I'm 24 and I've only just now this last year figured out what I want to go to school for. I couldn't even decide before this. And that's ignoring the fact that US schools just kinda toss you out into the world and say "good luck" without actually preparing you for it so it's really easy to just get lost and have no idea what to do either way.
[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;39815502]If I may ask OP, why not community college? Is it a money issue or what? There's absolutely nothing wrong with going to community college and transferring, it's what I plan to do since I just got rejected from a college I planned to go to.[/QUOTE]
I'm doing a similar thing, I don't have the money for a university right now, but the college I'm going to has a 3D modeling major that I can transfer to a university afterwards, and I'll have an associates degree after two years. Honestly, I think that's the way to go unless you're going to an Ivy League school on scholarship money.
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[QUOTE=pancaker94;39817627]but what four year institution would accept me though i'm so lost[/QUOTE]
Basically any as long as you have the money and you get accepted. What is that you're worried might disqualify you from being accepted?
The economy is shit, college isn't worth it. You'll just end up getting a degree that you can't use.
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