<p>Does anyone have any experience with bored high school students dropping out, getting their GED, attending their local community college, and then transferring to a top school?</p>
<p>No, but I had to get a GED AFTER graduating from Cornell Nursing school with a BS in nursing before I could take the nursing board exam in WV. I have heard of students transferring from a CC to a top college, but only anecdotally on CC.</p>
<p>My sister took a route sort of like that about ten years ago. She earned a GED and then went from community college to U of Portland, maybe not what you would call a top school but well-regarded in her area.</p>
<p>Yes. My stepdaughter dropped out at the beginning of her senior year of high school. Within a couple of months (while working in the supermarket bakery), she talked her way into a course at the local community college even before she had received her GED. After being enrolled there for a few semesters (I think she got her GED along the way, but I'm not positive), she transferred to a state university and got her B.S. in nursing. She is slowly working on her master's while raising a family. Her state U wouldn't be considered a "top school," but I believe she could have been accepted lots of places. She just didn't want to leave home.</p>
<p>Look to see if your community college has a Gateway To College Program. It's a combo GED/CC program, funded in part my the Bill Gates Foundation.</p>
<p>My dilemma is this- I have good test scores, good recs, and average grades.</p>
<p>However, I'm to the point where I can't handle high school anymore.</p>
<p>I want to drop out and get my GED, but still want to keep my options available at top schools.</p>
<p>Tyler, depending on where you live and how much money you've got (some things cost more than others), you might be able to go to a four-year college early, without bothering with the GED and CC steps. For example, there is the Bard Early College program <a href="http://www.bard.edu/bhsec/%5B/url%5D">http://www.bard.edu/bhsec/</a> . In WA state, there is Running Start. Some colleges accept high school students without a diploma.</p>
<p>Stick it out and apply to college normally. Everyone wants to leave high school, it's called senioritis. Even if you got it a bit earlier than your last year you just need to focus on the present and make the most of your time. It sucks but it's the best way to go about things, do you really want to have a record of getting a GED instead of finishing up high school like everyone else? Look to the future here, you might hate school but it'll be over soon and when you look back on it you'll think, "that wasn't so bad", but if you quit then you'll look back on it and always know that you were too lazy to finish.</p>
<p>It sounds like a great and easy option, but the best don't try to find how to get out of things, thing try to find how to make the best of things.</p>
<p>I agree with BusinessGuy. I posted my stepdaughter's experience before I realized that the OP was considering dropping out of school. If you asked her today, she would say not to follow her example. In fact, I remember vividly her phone call to me about two months into what would have been her senior year: "This was all a big mistake." Her situation eventually turned out all right, but it was very, very hard. She was running away from problems instead of facing them.</p>
<p>^ Yeah. Me too. Stick it out. You will NOT be happy in a GED program!</p>