<p>Okay, I'll try to explain what I am trying to do as best as I can. I am 16 years old. I took two college classes this summer. I did really good! I got an A and A- in the two classes. Now, my HS year is about to start. I won't have enough time to go to HS and college at the same time. The only thing stopping me from graduating from HS is the fact I haven't gotten enough elective credits and haven't taken english 11 and 12. I finished all the History, Science and Math classes that I need to take to graduate. We need 22 credits to graduate. I currently have 14 credits, I am missing the two English credits and the 6 electives credits. I see this as a waste of time. If I can handle college classes and I am ready, I should not waste two years in HS when I can go to college. My HS has a program it's called Dual Enrollment. It is where a student goes takes 3 classes at HS and 3 in college. I have been working and visiting the school during summer to get accepted into the program but no luck. My plan is, to drop out of HS and get a GED then go apply for college. I am taking one college class this fall plus my HS classes. I will go to HS as I usually do this fall then drop out and get all my paper works ready and do the GED test then apply to college before the winter semester starts. This way I won't waste an entire semester doing nothing, I'll still be taking a class at college.
So here is a little summary :)
During this fall, I will attend my college class. I will drop out of HS then do my GED test. Register again at my college then register for my winter classes. Does this seem like a bad idea?
Like those 6 elective credits are art, gym, health, and so on... useless.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure most colleges, depending where you’re from, would prefer High school degrees over GED’s because GED just proves you have your general education, and it’s pretty much completely useless unless you want to go to a Community college for two years first then to a university. If that’s what you’re planning on doing, then all power to you(:</p>
<p>I want to be a pharmacists, so I need to get my pre-requirement done which should take about 2 years. I will do those two years in community college then transfer to Wayne State Pharmacy school. That’s why I think this could actually work.</p>
<p>Stick with school. So what you take two English classes and a couple of blow off electives? You’ll be at a better college in the end.</p>
<p>I know what you mean. Where ever I go I will not have a diploma but a GED. Never getting feeling of having a diploma. HS is not school anymore… its a daycare for me. Being more mature than everybody else sucks. Having a teacher who yells at me for having a little hole in jeans or being forced to take notes in a certain way that doesn’t work for me or always getting threatened of being suspended from teachers if I try to study in a way that works for me and not their way… College is different, I get to decide how I study, being around people who actually give a dam about school and their future, and being able to be myself and not being forced to be the “perfect” student that HS always tries to make out of me. My other plan is to take some of my HS classes online so I graduate and get a diploma by the time of my junior year. Take those electives online and english 12 during summer school then get my diploma. My HS is a failing school in my state’s eyes, I don’t get treated as a student who cares about his future, I get treated as a student who doesn’t care if he goes to college or not. Every teacher I ever had forces me to do things that blow my mind! I had a teacher that tried to do EVERYTHING to fail me because I refused to bring a folder. I stay organized at home. I don’t bring all my papers to school. She didn’t like it, she suspended me so many times just because she didn’t like it. Even though that has worked for me since middle school. This doesn’t seem like the best path but I will try the online path and see if that works little better.</p>
<p>You should have your parents contact the district … Or transfer you out… That’s your high schools issue not yours.</p>
<p>Don’t quit school, try your best to stay in school, there is always summer school or drop lunch.
It’s ok if you don’t have all your credits work it out with your guidance counselor, I know they do a ****ty job but be nice to him/her cuz your guidance counselor will help you</p>
<p>I can’t transfer out, My parents cannot afford to go drop me off and pick me up everyday, my parents did talk to the school administrators… They said, we cannot do anything about it, if a teacher wants to teach a certain way, your kid must follow their ways. I am more of auditory learner, I learn through lectures not drawing a picture to recall during a test… I can remember almost everything I hear, like it just sticks in my head for a long time! Third Quarter I got 64% and fourth quarter I got 32% because I went with her way and did what she said and it didn’t work! Then I got 95% on the final by studying my way and I passed the class.</p>
<p>I have more credits than I am supposed to. A junior is supposed to have 12, I have 14. I took HS classes in middle school 
I am smart just don’t want to waste my time on blow off classes. I’ll try to stick for two more years and get my diploma and move out of Michigan! This state is just not getting any better, specially when you are living 5 miles away from most dangerous city in U.S :)</p>
<p>Graduate after junior year (something I almost chose to do), take an English class online (I doubt your school will let you take two at once) and fill your schedule with electives. It is not a big deal to spend one more year in school and will give you time to do things like taking the SAT/ACT and looking into more colleges. Also consider applying to colleges that will let you begin after your junior year of high school even if you don’t officially graduate (I know Allegheny has a program like that).</p>