Currently, I'm a junior at my high school. I loathe going there very much, and am not interested in staying. It's boring, they teach to the middle 80% of the class, et cetera. However, I would like to give college a chance and have a career of some kind.

So.

I was wondering if anyone here could give some feedback on the idea of dropping out of high school early to go to college instead. I would only do this with a very good ACT score, a GED (if the college insists), and at least a middle class rank at the time I would drop out, all of which I'm able to do. Is skipping my senior year such a good idea? Am I taking the easy life of a high school student for granted? I'm looking for greener pastures here, intellectually, basically.

I'm pretty sure I'm capable of college academically (just by what others have told me and what I've made on the state aptitude tests); what I'm worried about is being rejected by them, or any financial trouble I may run into (no scholarship). I know of at least one time locally where this has been the case, and also of two home schooled students who did the same at 16 and 18. If anyone is in a position to advise me on this, uh, please do.

you could try that but you will most likely have to go to a community college first.From what i have heard universities are not too fond of taking GEDs.Besides enjoy high school while you can especially your senior year i had the same problem of my high school teaching to the middle 80% but what i did is read alot and read some classics.For example i read and did a book report on Dante's Divine Comedy part one: Inferno and did a book report on it my senior year some fairly hard reading.My advice is do more than the teacher requires of you that will boost your GPA and make it so you can get into a good university right of the bat

Contact your college of choice and have serious discussions with their admissions and their advisory staff.

sounds like you should stick it out, man. like you said about the scholarships and all...it would be a lot easier with a full four years of school and extracurriculars, as well as a real diploma, to get into a 4 year college of your choice. you drop out now and you can get your GED and go to community college to get a head start there...but you are giving up the experience of being a high school student. you only get to do it once in your life! people leave high school regretting not taking more advantage of the place and doing more shit. i know that's how i feel now. there was a program where you could start taking college classes in like 10th grade and graduate with an associates degree. but you lose something doing that. though i did get to take a year of college classes my senior year, and at the high school with my high school friends no less. now that was a good program and i don't regret that because it is taking a year off my college expenses.

finish highschool

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I graduated from high school a year early, but coincidentally I'm posting this from my university and would like to go home now. I'll get back to you when I get there, I've got quite a story. ;)

Thanks for the comments. I think I posted this at the wrong time, though.

The college I had in mind is not a community college. I've seen the college I had in mind (Southeast Missouri University) accept students at my age with just GEDs and high ACT scores before (although they were homeschooled, not high school dropouts, so maybe that's it). I wouldn't drop out early just to go to a community college; I was hoping SEMO would make another exception for me, and I'll arrange meetings with those guys late. That's not really the part I meant to be up for debate. I was wondering if anyone here could put some perspective on my warped, unrealistic teenage mind as to what high school actually was/is and if college is any better.

Which you have, I guess, so, thanks.

Thanks for the comments. I think I posted this at the wrong time, though.

The college I had in mind is not a community college. I've seen the college I had in mind (Southeast Missouri University) accept students at my age with just GEDs and high ACT scores before (although they were homeschooled, not high school dropouts, so maybe that's it). I wouldn't drop out early just to go to a community college; I was hoping SEMO would make another exception for me, and I'll arrange meetings with those guys late. That's not really the part I meant to be up for debate. I was wondering if anyone here could put some perspective on my warped, unrealistic teenage mind as to what high school actually was/is and if college is any better.

Which you have, I guess, so, thanks.

I thought about doing the same thing at the end of my junior year.The last year is awesome in high school you are finally at the top of the totem pole and no one can pull seniority on you.But other than that it gives you one more year to mature,get laid, make friends, and generally enjoy not having your whole grade in classes hinge on 4 or 5 tests.
But in the end It's your choice man to each their own.