I never had a interest in College, until the last couple of months. I am currently a senior in high school in Southern California. The reason why I never had an interest in college is that I have ran many successful businesses over my High school years. My most profitable business a Amazon reseller business that would of made me 150k year full time, needed to get shut (my decision) due to some huge over night rule changes. I had other businesses at the time and still do. From that point on I started researching U.S. a hobby of mine in middle school, collecting mostly. I have been doing some extensive research on it in the last few months. I have learned a ton, and now have landed with some important connections due to a huge database project I am doing that will benefit the coin community. This project has landed me in contact with some higher up people in the coin community. I am talking about people with masters degrees and published authors. I bumped into a guy last night. I told him my whole story. He used to be an admissions officer at the University Virginia. He got his BA at Cambridge and he went to Berkeley and got MBA in business. He was really surprised that I never applied to any 4 year schools. My plan has been all along to just go to a great community college by my house. The reason was because my 9-12th GPA is a 3.2 and my one SAT score is only a 1200. I only took the SAT once. I took it because I was curious what I would score on it not because I was using it for college. Because of that I never studied for it, and didn’t put 100% of my effort in it. I have never been any really credible club. However I have around 350 hours of community service, thanks to my dad working for a nonprofit that does a ton of charity work, and also my church. My biggest regret was that I was offered to be a intern at one of top computer crime labs in the country for a police department, I choose to deny their offer because of how busy I with me running my businesses. I regret that decision to this very day. I decided 3 months ago to take up a minimum wage job at a local frozen yogurt place to see how it was working for someone else and what I could learn to one day open a business my self. I still work their, but only a 15 hours a week, its a great experience though. The former admissions officer at Virginia said I was crazy not to apply to any Universities. He said that I would of got accepted to many business for my undergraduate based on special circumstances. Now back to research report I am doing. He said that once I finish this report, that it will highly benefit the coin community and that I should publish a book in it. He said he knows of a couple publishers personally and can get me to have a book published. So here are my options, what should I do. Option 1: Go to community college, continue this research report, and get a book published in 2 years, and set aside my time consuming profitable businesses.
Option 2: Apply to many universities now, and go where ever I get accepted. I would continue to work on my research project, and still get a book published.
Option 3: Take a gap year. Start running my 2 businesses full time, I am 95% positive I will make 100-130k my first year. And set aside my research project.
On a side note. I am completely capable of getting good grades. I got straight A’s 7-9th grade when I had no businesses running. I didn’t start my first serious business until 10th grade. I have thoughts that if I go to community college, I won’t be around the best type of people influencing me to drop out of school completely to do work full time.
What option should I take? And is there a solid chance this late in my senior year to getting accepted in a semi decent four year University for business.