Is there a "scientologist" exception?
I am a newbie so I'm sorry if this is a stupid question.
Have any of you had success with colleges (or any other institution requiring you to have a documented past including jobs/academics) by simply explaining that you were trapped in Scientology? An essay on that would make a killer "personal statement," surely!
Of course, that doesn't get rid of a requirement to have a GED or equivalent and the basic skills you would need in freshman year, but it sounds like at least some of you done this, even if you had to choose between getting a GED and eating. Unfortunately colleges these days want a resume with no gaps that includes not only jobs, but academics, volunteering, sports, arts, basically the whole over-programmed adolescent experience. At least, from Wog-world applicants. Scientology deprives you of the chance to experience the wonders of the overprogrammed adolescence that is "normal" now in the US.
I'm curious, because it seems like one of the worst real-life effects of growing up in Scientology is that it's both financially and practically hard to get a college education, and college is pretty much required for so many professions these days. You leave the cult financially broke, emotionally harmed, and with gigantic obstacles to many career paths. We should start a scholarship fund,