U.S. Department of Education considers a degree as a high school equivalency

[CollegeStudentAC]

I’ve applied at a lot of places and most applications ask, “Do you have a high school diploma or equivalent?” with the answers being “yes” or “no” regardless of the education requirement of the job. I now understand that having an Associate degree with no HS diploma would mean you could select “yes.” However, rather than having to select “no” for the next 2 years, it still seems simpler to just get a GED or CAEC (GED replacement in Canada from 5/4/24 apparently) instead.

The only school that offers CAEC is the one I dropped out of in highschool. I tried to get answers for their false advertising and lying about ministry policy, human rights violations and was belittled and had the blame put on me and then finally ghosted by the general manager and academic director, so yeah, horrible school.

Anyways, I'll have my Associates soon enough. I could get it really fast via Pierpont or some CBE-based education or just do the 4 months (due to Sophia) somewhere so the selecting no on applications isn't a concern.

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I also just looked it up to confirm and yeah, career colleges are considered post-secondary education and I anticipate to be done my program sometime next month so I would end up attaining this equivalency:

• Canadian or U.S. postsecondary diploma or degree
  

So yeah, I'm good.