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How will I get into foreign college if I don't have a GPA?

So this might take awhile to explain to you but her it goes! I started working at a pretty young age because my family is really poor and so school always seemed to take the backseat, and by the time freshman year highschool ended (I really meant I started working young to bring in money!) I only had one credit! I was pretty much ready to drop out and wait for my sixteenth birthday the next year so I could just get my GED and continue working. My mom wouldnt have it though. She told me that I had better graduate highschool and I'm not dropping out and all that, but in all honestly I couldnt balance work & school. So my mom got me into this contract thing at the school I was attending where I only went once a week for 45 minutes and did like 23 hours of homework. I've been doing this for the past two months now and its been going great. I was also able to quit one of my jobs which leaves me a lot more free time than i could have imagined. Anyway back to my question! The program I'm on dosnt provide its students with a gpa. It just gives the credits with a PASS, and at the time of graduation a highschool diploma- This worrys me because I really wanted to attend a medical school outside of the U.S and now I feel its near impossible. Or perhaps not? I suppose I could go to community college for a few years and build up a gpa? Would that do anything for me? I'm pretty desperate to follow through with what I want to do with my life, graduate from a foreign medical school. (The reason I dont want to stay in the U.S is simply because I find the rest of the world much more facinating x_x terrible I know) So what do I do folks? Since I've quit one of my jobs I've already begun volunteering at a hospital four hours a week and next week I will also begin volunteering at a homeless shelter and homefully that will help out as well too eh? I really wanted to study in Japan or Egypt, and so you Know I am not some dumb kid, I have been studying Japanese and Arabic for years and already my levels are nearly native hopefully by the time I am eighteen they will be at the native point, (I have some native speaking friends who I am greatfull to say put aside an hour a week to teach me! ^.^) Well I probably wont get too many answers seeing as how complicated this is, but thanks for all who tried!

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1. You might want to discuss this with a more limited and knowledgeable group. Check yahoo groups and subscribe. However, when is is said and done you need credentials to move forward to the next step.