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If you have a GED what do you need to do to acquire an advanced degree in the sciences such as a doctorate? |
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You can do anything you want in this world. College is about comprehension and reading fast. The GED is not an issue and what kind of college does not matter. Anyone can get into any college if they try hard enough. However, college or university is only a confidence trick of believing that you have intelligence and are not a dummy. Man is so afraid that he is a Neanderthal that he creates what he believes to be a higher level of knowledge in schools. Whereby, most schools especially in America were not created for learning, but to get people into the working mill. The old Jesuit rote method in Europe was the answer to learning and thinking whereas the DuPont family created public education in America for commercial reasons and not for wisdom and learning. The Jesuits required the student to score 100% on test before they passed them. Back in my day it was 70%, now it is much lower. The lost love of study is the lost art of reading. I have developed a reading method that is the best. I have studied many speed-reading courses believing them all just initial flashes in the pan, but not practical or useable long term. My method is peripheral reading and very simple. Use the example sentence, "The boy walked down the street meeting his cousin Mary Katherine". Instead of reading every word and saying the words to oneself, the idea is to see the words, but not say them in your mind. Now the problem is that one needs to be conditioned to do this ideal of seeing words and comprehending them without saying them to oneself. However, I am the only one who has developed a reconditioning reading programme. Take our ten word sentence and instead of reading all ten words to oneself read just the bold and italicised words "The boy walked down the street meeting his cousin Mary Katherine". By reading arbitrarily this way, one now increases his or her speed three times without losing any comprehension. Remember though, this is not scanning but peripheral reading by letting the mind see the rest of the words without saying them to oneself. Eventually, one can recondition themselves to see one word on the page and comprehend the entire page (see "Photoreading" that is the best of all - I will explain photoreading on answers.com elsewhere).
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Same thing as someone with a traditional high school diploma does. Go to college.
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As one is has experienced this, I can say unequivocally that a GED carries no weight matter once you start college. To get into graduate school however, one should focus, and do well in undergrad. Moreover, most graduate programs require a certain test. It is important to prepare for, and take very seriously, any graduate test that may be necessary as these scores are, generally, heavily weighted.
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I couldn't agree more with the above answer. (also as someone who did the GRE to Master's thing). Once you get into your undergraduate program the GED becomes irrelevant. Just take it one step at a time always with your eye on the prize. Get into and do well in a Bachelor's program. Then worry about your GRE not your GED--it will matter a WHOLE lot more. Then get into and excel in a Master's program. (then take the GRE again if you like). THEN get into a PhD program. Good Luck
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First answer by Rfor. Last edit by ScottPhD. Contributor trust: 6 [recommend contributor]. Question popularity: 203 [recommend question]
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