Courses to complete the High School Diploma ASAP

Thirty credit hours in what? Was your freshman year spent at a local college? If so, why not take ap’s and dual enrollment credits? Your parents are just going to move based on your desire? If that is the casewhy not look at some more challenging private hogh schools?

@scubadive, I am not only ahead of my peers in math, but also english, and science. If I decided to, I could also take social studies at an advanced level.

While you may be ahead you have only one credit hour which is what your peers should have. I am assuming you are a freshman in hs. Many kids are ahead of their peers in terms of acience, math or english that does not mean they are ready for Princeton. How are you ahead specifically. Are you in honors or ap whereas many of your classmates are not? Did you skip a grade?

@austinmshauri, what would the NYS Board of Regents enforce differently from the Iowa Dept. of Education?

@scubadive, dual enrollment as I have mentioned thoroughly before is not accepted by highly ranked universities. Also, you must keep in mind my goal: to complete the high school diploma. I am not therefore looking to go to a highly ranked high school.

One thing you don’t do is answer questions which is a skill required for demanding colleges. You also stated that you found hs useless presumably because you find it not challenging. Hence changing to a more competitive hs could improve your situation.

@scubadive, I am enrolled in classes well above that compared to my peers. I am not listed as a freshman due to my situation. I will not go into how I got ahead deeply. Once again, this thread is made to answer my questions.

@scubadive, if you had not yet noticed I have answered the questions which are needed to be answered to find a solution to my questions in an organized manner. Your passive-aggressiveness is not helping anyone. My whole goal once again is to receive the high school diploma. Please ask questions which are useful in assissiting me towards finding a resolution for my inquires. If not, I recommend to keep any other questions not included in your comments.

Your question has been answered, repeatedly, by multiple posters. There are no legitimate programs that will combine 3 years worth of courses into one summer.

Posters here are trying to help you understand that your “plan” is going to be counterproductive for your goals.

Your time would be better served thinking about the rest of your college application - standardized test scores, ECs, leadership, volunteer hours, sports or music, etc… instead of circumventing HS.

Each state determines its own requirements for what constitutes an acceptable high school education. Since you’re in Iowa you have to satisfy the requirements set by the Iowa Department of Education. If you want to attend college outside of Iowa you need to understand what those colleges require for admission and graduation. Public colleges are governed by their state education department.

You have provided limited info and as the other posters have written they know of no such thing. And to to be honest you are being rude to those trying to help you. Might I suggest you google it. But to be honest colleges have specific requirements and one year of hs isnt going to cut it gaining admission to Cornell. Online school if they would permit such a thing is not going to get you into Cornell either.

@momofsenior1, how can a question go answered without a solution? If you would like to add a solution, that would be much appreciated. If your supposed solution is not to do it at all, this is not a solution.

@austinmshauri, say I were to go to an NY high school. What specifically would be different than going to a high school in IA in terms of the graduation and such?

I’m sorry @Michael3423 but you are not coming across as very friendly which doesn’t help make people want to help you. In addition even you yourself have said you have researched and can’t find a program to finish high school by the end of this summer. That may be because high school isn’t designed to be a race. While you are perhaps familiar with a test after every chapter that is not the case at every high school. It is certainly not the case for my 9th grader. It really seems to depend on the class. Math she has tons of quizzes, ELA has only had a midterm, history she has her 2nd test tomorrow etc.

While many top schools do not accept dual enrollment credits for college credits that is not the same as not accepting them as high school credits. However that is something you would need your own high school to approve which is typically done before you take the class. I understand you don’t feel that high school or early college isn’t for you but top colleges will want a better explanation than it was tedious. If you have even 1 college credit you need to submit that information to any college you apply to even if you don’t want college credit for it. Have you taken any ap classes? Where are you with foreign language classes?

First colleges care about high school graduation and course rigor etc. They also care about things like test scores. However in addition to that they like to see some extra curriculars beyond straight academics and the development of leadeship skills etc. They like seeing things like sports, band, jobs, volunteer work, school clubs, youth groups for your house of worship etc. You might have that but one year of high school isn’t enough to show all that. For top colleges you will be up against the vast majority of kids with high test scores, high gpas, and 4 years of all core classes etc as well as ec’s etc.

I do know a local public high school that did a combined history/ELA class but it was two periods and two credits - no short cuts. I’ve heard of gym and health being combined but still taking the same amount of time. Our high school does have a summer math program for credit but you can’t do more than 1 math class. It meets Monday to Friday I think for 5 weeks 8 to 2. It requires several hours of homework each day in addition to the class and you can’t miss a single day, skip a single days homework. Every homework needs to have at least an x grade and the midterm and final need to have at least x grade (I think some are 88 and some are 90s) in order to receive credit. I’m sure some high schools have more options. I believe ours only goes through AB Calculus AB. If you take them anywhere besides your own high school you need to find out first if your high school will accept the summer credits (some high schools only offer credit recovery).

Are your parents moving to NYS? If you don’t live here, the requirements don’t apply to you.

@momtogirls2, I understand your concerns, however my case is one which must be dealt with well. I do not desire to carry on with high school. It is simply a put back. I have dealt with 2-3 test along with 2 quizzes on the daily without a sweat. The human body is a source for untapped potential. Once you tap this potential, you have not yet to see what it can produce. I have already discussed extensively with my school about summer classes. I must first find a solution and then the school must approve of it.

@austinmshauri, my parents are willing to move to NYS.

I think you’re misunderstanding, Michael. Your insistence that there must be a solution that will allow you to do what you want to do doesn’t mean that one exists. You can’t will one into being just because that’s what you want. You want a solution to your desire to have a high school diploma in 5 months. You also want that diploma to meet your state’s requirements for high school equivalency. In addition, you want it to be acceptable to elite colleges. And beyond that you want it to be accepted by US medical schools. Any solution that gets you a high school diploma in 5 months won’t meet any of your other criteria. So according to your own stipulations, the solution you require doesn’t exist.

@austinmshauri, how are the requirements under the NY Boards of Regents different? This is what I am wondering.

If you tell me which part of the NYS graduation requirements you don’t understand I’ll be happy to try to explain it to you.

You have provided no details regarding rigor, course selection, grades or standardized tests yet you want to go to a top ten. Is this how you would answer an adcom? What you think is ahead may not be so in the grand scheme of things. You are not interested in a competitive hs and only a prestigious college taking shortcuts. So yes the questions I asked as have others are pertinent. And what you want does not exist for admission to a school such as Cornell. A GED exists or at min 3 years of hs which will hinder your ability of gaining admission to an elite college. Might I suggest you call Cornell and ask.

@austinmshauri, please explain the differences between the NYS graduation requirements compared to the Iowa graduation requirements.

If you tell me which ones you don’t understand I’ll try to explain them.