You can if there is no doctor around and someone needs immediate help. I had to do the heimlich maneuver a number of times while traveling. If someone breaks his arm or leg you apply a splint etc. If you know what to do, people come to you for help whether you show the credentials or are the pretender. Being a diabetic, I had to learn a few medical facts which I used in life. If you need brain surgery, you go to the certified brain surgeon. But, if you can avoid going to the emergency hospital, you try to skip the doctor. It just costs too much to get the antibiotics prescribed. There are other ways to obtain them.
Yeah! There are the testing scams to get you into the colleges. It costs money to take the PSAT or SAT. You need a good score to show that you are capable of going to college. Then, if you want the test results sent to a number of colleges, you must pay for that. You can take these tests as many times as you want and the highest score will stand. Each test cost about $80. Now it turns out that UCBerkeley is considering not requiring an SAT or ACT score when you apply to enter. (I believe you must take their entrance exam - along with writing an interesting paper on why they should take you in.)
The same goes with the AP classes in high school. The high school AP classes are harder because they load you up with more homework. You get a letter grade higher - if you earn a B, they write an A in your credits. So, you can have a 4.5 out of a possible 4.0 on your GPA. What is this all about? If you take college courses while you are in high school, you get AP credit for each college class you take. So, we might just send Sabuk to the Community College during his senior year. He gets the college courses and a college GPA while he's finishing high school. He will still have to learn the names and dates that we've all been tested on. But, he can finish faster. There are rules for those who try to do it right. There are ways to tweak the system into doing what's right for you.
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The same goes with the AP classes in high school. The high school AP classes are harder because they load you up with more homework. You get a letter grade higher - if you earn a B, they write an A in your credits. So, you can have a 4.5 out of a possible 4.0 on your GPA. What is this all about? If you take college courses while you are in high school, you get AP credit for each college class you take. So, we might just send Sabuk to the Community College during his senior year. He gets the college courses and a college GPA while he's finishing high school. He will still have to learn the names and dates that we've all been tested on. But, he can finish faster. There are rules for those who try to do it right. There are ways to tweak the system into doing what's right for you.