<p>I'm a junior in high school and I started taking classes at my local CC last summer. After this semester I will have 24 units completed. I'm taking another 8 over the summer and I plan to take a full load in the fall and spring (while i breeze by high school with D's). I plan to apply to UCB, UCL and UCSD in the fall as well. I will be a junior when the rest of the people my age will be freshman. </p>
<p>Why did I do this? I think the biggest reason was because I could. I hated the smart "I'm better than you" asian guys that were acing every biology quiz and trampling me in algebra 2. I tried a couple classes last summer and LOVED it. It was completely different from high school. MUCH MUCH easier. I love the format of classes in that nobody is forcing you to come. Even though I go to every class I just like the feeling of knowing that I can leave. </p>
<p>Anyway, am I the first guy youve heard of doing this?</p>
<p>i just found a guy on this bored (like page 5) that is doing the same thing. except he crapped out of high school and took a proficiency exam.</p>
<p>I thought about it, but then two things came to mind.
1)I enjoy the social aspect of high school
2)I talked to a guy that got his proficiency certificate to move onto get his bachelors and he had a little bit of a difficult time find a job because it shows weak commitment (go figure).</p>
<p>no your not the first guy ive heard doing this, because im doing it too. but i did something different from you, i dropped out of high school entirely to do my CC classes full time, lol.</p>
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hated the smart "I'm better than you" asian guys
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dont be racist. i know you didnt mean to offend, but im an asian. even if your asian yourself metalgod, i still feel that your comment was uncalled for.</p>
<p>Hey, I am doing that. I have been at a community college for four years on and off instead of attending high school. At 15, I received my proficiency. Now, at seventeen, I am finally ready to transfer with a whopping 116 units completed at a communty college. I applied as a junior transfer to 16 different colleges (3 of which already rejected me and 13 of which have yet to reply). I applied for Berkeley's super competitive and widely acclaimed Haas School of Business, and I am in the second round of consideration for acceptance (about 1/2 of the applicants in the second round are admitted). I could have easily transfered to a different UC without any difficulty and I had a TAA at UCSC that I did not use. </p>
<p>I just realized that the "guy" on this board that you might be referring to is me, but I am a girl. Hmm... </p>
<p>I did something similar, I took the California High School Proficiency Exam half way through my junior year of high school, now I'm 18 years old and ready to transfer to UCSD in the fall as a junior. There were several different factors that led me to this decision; mainly I was kind of the "smart but lazy" type and slacked off my first two years of high school and I really wasn't into the whole social aspect of my high school. I found that attending Community College worked out much better for me. I felt much more challenged by the coursework (in some subjects, at least), I was able to explore a variety of different areas of study and I was forced to develop more personal responsibility and a stronger work ethic. It's kind of a strange path to take but it works well for some students.</p>
<p>Not attending community college, but I dropped out of high school after 10th grade to attend a small liberal arts college (no GED, so I'm still technically a dropout), so it's a similar situation that I've been in college for two years where my peers back at high school are currently seniors. </p>
<p>I've so far been accepted to Smith, Wellesley, and UChicago, waiting on Rice, Swarthmore, Yale, and Stanford.</p>
<p>but yea i guess im one of the few that decided to keep attending high school. now i dont feel so bad when i get my report card with all D-'s. Hey, its still passing!</p>
<p>I go to Santiago Canyon College/ Santa ana college in orange/santa ana, california.</p>
<p>back in high school a friend of mine did something similar. took proficiency test as a sophmore in hs so he could graduate early and started community college. he eventually went on to start a software company and was making around 75K/yr while the rest of us were just graduating high school. on the other hand last i heard his company went down the tubes during the technology bust and now he is unemployed and can't seem to find a job that pays anything other than small hourly.</p>
<p>being an asian myself, i must say some of our peers attitude are just plain bad. they often have a "I am better than you" attitude that is not seen in any other race.</p>
<p>well to stereotype all asians like that is wrong...pressure at home to make distinguished grades is about 20000000000000000000000000000000 times worse. if you make a B your parents make you feel like s h i t ......but though some times we may end up doing better(lots of times we end up being average or worse) doesn't mean we all have the mentality of "i'm better than you"</p>
<p>and being like "hmm don't care" about it just shows your unwillingness to accept the fact that you can't always be the best at everything, and your need to blame another race for it, because it makes you feel better about yourself...i'm sure there are a couple of white kids that ace those bio tests too :)</p>
<p>what makes you think you can escape the "I'm better than you" asian guys once you transfer to UCB, UCLA, or UCSD? they're evermore present at those schools.</p>
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20000000000000000000000000000000 times worse. if you make a B your parents make you feel like s h i t ......but though some times we may end up doing better(lots of times we end up being average or worse) doesn't mean we all have the mentality of "i'm better than you"
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<p>That is an accurate depiction of our pressures.</p>
<p>I must also add that such a pressure to do well is also present in French culture; parents will never congratulate you for earning an A on an exam, since they expect that from you. However, they are apt to criticize if the grade is lower than an A. Thus, such a work-ethic is not necessarily confined in scope to the Asian ethnicity.</p>
<p>I totally bombed in high school. I passed two AP exams in u.s hist and lit and comp., and got a 1250 on the SAT's. But by my senior year my average was a 2.3, and so i knew i was ****ed. Smoked too much weed, what can i say. Could never do hwk. Now i got a 3.72 but i regret missing out on the frosh soph university experience, it would have been really fulfilling, and although as cc students weve had our own experiences, i think wed slightly be different people, in a more positive way. For me that means more upbeat, i loathe being at a comm. college, its depressing.</p>
<p>I am in UCSD, i am happy, and I ain't checking anything else anymore, I got my money back already.</p>
<p>Personally I really dislike those academic eliteists, and the best way to OWN them, is to act like you are all stupid and stuff (and really low-key), until they realize you are better than them academicly.</p>