As long as your money is good, some colleges don’t care

Forget about needing good grades to get into college; a small but growing number of students are getting in without having a high school diploma or equivalency, The New York Times reported. Nearly 400,000 college students, or 2 percent, never graduated from high school, according to a 2003 survey by the U.S. Education Department. That’s up from 1.4 percent four years earlier. And as more states require high school students to pass exit exams, expect the number of nongrads in college to keep increasing.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

3 Comments

  1. Ian Santiago
    Posted June 2, 2006 at 12:38 am | Permalink

    Affirmative action incompetents can barely speak and walk upright so this should not be a surprise to anyone.

    Viva La Raza Blanco!!!

  2. raptor
    Posted June 2, 2006 at 7:16 am | Permalink

    Competency is not measured by the number of years spent in school.

    Case in point, a fraternity brother of mine never graduated from college..he was accepted at Med School during his junior year.

    He now practices medicine at Boston General. Never did get a bachelor’s degree.

  3. heartlander
    Posted June 2, 2006 at 8:32 am | Permalink

    There are increasing numbers of kids who are home-schooled who don’t have hs diplomas.

    Also, don’t forget kids who go to college early instead of finishing high school, such as the student, Patrick Rooney, age 16, who was mentioned in the Times article.