Can Special Ed Students Go to College?

Question

I am asking this question becuase I really want to go to college after high school. I do make high grades but the only problem is I'm in special ed and I'm afraid because they are ppl telling me that I shouldn't go to college just because I'm "special" and I heard that people who wanna go to college must take the ACT/SAT test and I heard the test is very hard and it might have a lot things I have never laerned about such as geomerty or chemistry for example (I take basic math nd science). A couple of weeks ago I was asked to take a test for dual credit so I can get college credit in my senior but the test was too hard so I gave up! Will it be better if I just graduate from high school or go to college?

Answer 1

I was in special ed classes in high school too, and I passed all my classes with good grades. It's been almost a year since I've graduated high school and I haven't done any sort of further education. I wanted to go to college for so long, but I've recently realized that if I couldn't even keep up with the "normal" students in high school, then how in the world will I ever make it in any kind of college course (especially since many "normal" kids can't get through a lot of college courses.) I'm very discouraged like you must be feeling. I have this dream of becoming a film/video director, but for me to even take a class for that, I will have to do basics as well. I just don't think I can do it because of the many difficulties I faced in the "simple" high school courses I took. Sadly, I don't think I could mentally handle college courses. I REALLY hope you do very well in college, and maybe one day you will be my inspiration to finally go. :)

-J<3