<p>I am in the unfortunate situation that my parents are unsupportive of my plans for college education and will probably prevent me from leaving home as long as they can (until I'm 18).</p>
<p>My birthday is in the end of October, and there is no way that I could change their minds to let me attend college while I am still a minor and subject to their crazy whims.</p>
<p>I think my scores, essays, and high school record (2360 / 3 x 800 / 4.0 UW) are good enough that I will probably get in for the Fall 2009 quarter. Would there be any way to start classes at winter quarter?</p>
<p>I've heard of students who don't quite make the cutoff for Fall quarter being offered admission to Winter quarter. Is there any way a student could "defer" from Fall quarter to Winter quarter? If it's only due to a very good reason, I'll probably have trouble because "My parents think I'm too immature and wouldn't handle being away from them" sounds really lame >.<</p>
<p>I'm really hoping that I could start in Winter quarter rather than Fall 2010 because I don't want to lose a whole year of time and applying again would make the situation of needing to ask my school for transcript again and also give parents chance to stop me. =(</p>
<p>(A side question: If I miraculously got any merit scholarship, could this also be saved until the winter quarter? And housing.)</p>
<p>i know some winter admits and i know they would kill to start fall quarter. you'll miss all the welcome week activities and meeting people and everything if you start later!</p>
<p>you probably can defer a quarter for academics, but i doubt they'll keep a space for you for housing. the scholarship would probably apply to only the quarters you're academically enrolled</p>
<p>Yeah, keep in mind that if you do want to go through with this, your on-campus housing hopes will be reduced to hoping you place high on a waitlist.</p>
<p>hm...not living on campus sounds pretty bad :</p>
<p>is there any way i could get housing if i paid the $3000 for housing in fall quarter and was just MIA for part of the time? I could be able to move in by November, but I would probably need to start classes in January. (Unless I could miss the first month of all classes and not die during fall quarter.)</p>
<p>I just read the thing about voiding housing agreement if you don't live on campus starting from the fall quarter after graduating high school or if you move off campus at any point.</p>
<p>i think you could definitely get a merit scholarship
in fact i kind of wonder why you want to go to sd when you have like berkeley stats...</p>
<p>im in muir, and i know some people who got regents scholarships. (i think thats the 10,000 one). they said that you need a 700 in math/critical reading for them to offer it to you. (so 1400 total). i dont know whether that was the only criteria, so i suggest you somehow contact the school for more clarification. </p>
<p>you should really be asking this to school officials though since they have the final say</p>
<p>that's absurd. age is little more than a legal and chronological definition of who you are. and think about it, do you think you're going to do some enormous amount of growing up once you hit 18?</p>
<p>my birthday's even later than yours (end of november), and i got shipped off to college with no problems at age 17. i even had a 16-year-old friend who had skipped a grade earlier. people even go cross-country at that age. what are your parents thinking???</p>
<p>if anything, being a minor has its questionable perks -- you won't be able to cross the border into mexico with your friends and get drunk there ;) is that enough to change their minds?</p>
<p>Even though I'm skinny, it's not like I'm crazy unusual... (5' 7" 108 ish? >.>)</p>
<p>Somehow they think that without their supervision I'll suddenly become sickly and not eat enough due to being overloaded with work. Since my high school record totally points to classwork being an issue for me. >.< </p>
<p>I'm afraid to confront them right now though because they'll just prevent me from finishing senior year, which is probably even worse.</p>
<p>Ahh..the woes of American eating disorder paranoia meeting dictatorial/ OCD Asian parents.</p>
<p>(I mean, we all know that skinny Asian girls are completely unheard of.)</p>
<p>But yeah. The 18th birthday thing is pretty arbitrarily chosen. Not being very legally informed, I just assume that's the point when there's no way they'll be able to continue making these kinds of ultimatums on me.</p>