Master's Degree but no GED?

Question

I will soon be graduating with my Bachelor's Degree, and I hope to go on to get my Master's Degree. However, needing a GED or High School Diploma is frequently mentioned on employment requirements. Would it count to have a Master's Degree instead of a GED?

I know this question sounds idiotic, but I didn't know if there were any stodgy rules that completely required the highschool diploma or GED, regardless of whether or not the applicant has a degree.

Answer 1

       Guest3326 and others.. First you should "never" speak in absolutes...Second, in reference to.. "There is no way that you could have gotten into college without a high school diploma or a GED. So... whatever." .... You are mistaken. Most states including California allow anyone to enter the community colleges so long as they meet one of two basic requirements. First, they must either be 18 years old, or have HS diploma or GED, meaning that if a student has reached his 18th birthday but is a HS dropout, he or she can still enroll in community college classes. In addition, once a student demonstrates academic ability by satisfying the needed requirements to transfer, and he or she meets the university’s GPA requirements, no institution is going to care if that student has completed HS or not. Furthermore, once the student finishes his or her BA/BS, graduate programs are only going to be interested in his post secondary academic achievements.

        There people out there that for some reason feel that this is cheating, but its not. Remember, HS provides students the basic premise for post secondary education. If a student drops out in the 10th grade and has failed many of his courses until that point, that student is going to find even community college challenging because community college professors are going to expect that that student has some prior knowledge of the subject pertaining to his course. For example, if you either failed or did not take government in HS, you may have a difficult time understanding the principles of political science; even basic math won’t be so basic if you’ve never taken HS math. Having said all of this, a student entering a community college without a HS diploma is going to be in a huge disadvantage from the start and its likely result in his or her ultimate failure. This is all very tough, but it can be done.

       I dropped out of HS in the start of my 11th grade year. By the time I was 18, I decided despite many objections and wrong info (from many like those above or below) I decided to take classes at a local community college. While I was there, I either dropped or failed every subject at least twice or more for reasons listed above, and at times I even took periods of time off to refocus. Eventually, I surrounded myself around smart and ambitious students and managed to transfer to a university were 2 years later I finished my BA in political science. Last year, I went one step further and completed my M.A. from a very reputable California university who also didn’t care that I didn’t have a HS diploma or GED. It can be done…Is it easy? h**l No !!!! There are still many things that I still never got… But it kills me to hear people speak in such absolutes about something that they clearly no nothing about…