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Try getting into a PhD program without a high school diploma

Does any graduate program even ASK if an applicant has a certificate of completion of secondary schooling? Which one?

(Note that the submitted post claims that the author knows someone who received multiple offers of admission to graduate programs without possessing a high school diploma, which sounds very plausible to me indeed.)

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Sorry - I misspoke. I meant to say that there's no need to ask for a high school diploma as a qualifier to get into a graduate program - graduate programs require undergraduate degrees with very few (any?) exceptions. Even if the undergraduate degree did not in turn require a secondary (high school) diploma, the undergraduate program was itself a qualifier. The point is that in response to the main concept of this article that you don't need a high school diploma to get into many schools (MIT notwithstanding) is only relevant to undergraduate degrees, and even in that case, is not particular to just MIT.

actually, MIT's Media Lab does not require PhD candidates to have an undergrad education.

Yes - the world renowned Media Lab.

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