Personal Narrative: The Move On When Ready

After my tenth grade year, I was undecided if I wanted to go to college. I knew about the Move On When Ready program, but was not sure I wanted to be on a campus with most everyone being older than me, at first I wanted to take online classes. I also had to make the choice as to where I was going to attend. Proximity to home, and familiarity with the campus and professors is what determined this decision. I passed the ACT, and after considering my options, I chose to attend Darton State College because it offered me many new opportunities and experiences, and was conveniently close to home. The Move On When Ready program was the biggest cause for me choosing to attend Darton State College. I had known about the Move On When Ready program, and I had been preparing to take the ACT. I was very worried I would not pass the ACT, and really did not want to take the test, but my parents made me and I passed the test. After passing the ACT, the Move On When Ready program allowed me to go ahead and start on college courses. While taking these courses, I also earn high school credits at the same time. This allows me to not have to take high

I had never been on ABAC’s campus, and I had been on Darton’s campus quite a few times. I had taken field trips to Darton while in public school, and also went to physical education classes at Darton with our homeschool group. Darton held a swimming class for homeschoolers, where we went to the pool, did swimming exercises, and dived of the diving boards. The swimming class was once a week for two months. After the last swimming class, Darton opened up a baseball training class. At this class we stretched, ran, warmed up, and did hitting exercises with Darton’s baseball team and their coaches. Due to this I was somewhat familiar with the Darton campus, and this helped influence my decision to attend