GED Plus Student Receives Perfect Score on GED Exam; Profiled in the Boston Globe

Posted July 8th, 2008 by Heidi Hall
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Alex Quince, 18, is the second student ever in the GED Plus program to get a perfect score on the reading part of the test. He is profiled in the Boston Globe - "Boston dropout rings up a perfect score" (6/24/08)

 

By Maddie Hanna
Globe Correspondent / June 24, 2008

 

Sixteen was a long year for Alex Quince.

 

A quiet teenager making A's and B's, he ran away from home, dropped out of school, and tried everything from marijuana to heroin. He struggled with his sexual orientation. When his mother called his cellphone, sick with worry, he responded with a text message.

 

"I'm gay," it said. "I'm not coming home."

 

Now 18, Quince will graduate tonight from the GED Plus program after earning a perfect score on the reading section of the GED test. He plans to study photography and business this fall at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

 

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