From Quora: My answer to "Can People With a GED [sic] take the SAT?"

I’m fairly certain anyone can take the SAT if he or she pays the money, fills out the application, etc. A GED doesn’t disqualify you from applying to take the SAT, to attend college, or anything else. It is supposed to be literally a “general equivalency diploma” - the equivalent of a high school diploma.

I’m not going to lie to you - it’s not as good as getting an actual high school diploma, in that employers, colleges, etc. will wonder why you didn’t just finish high school. You will have to work harder to prove two things: (1) that you weren’t/aren’t too stupid to finish normal high school; and (2) that you don’t have serious problems with authority or a serious inability to get along with other people. Most people I know who didn’t complete high school basically had a hard time in environments with people weren’t nice to them, so high school pretty intolerable for them, even though they were obviously smart enough to pass high school.

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