<p>Hey. I'm a junior and during the last few months I've gotten increasingly fed up with high school, and now I've decided that I desperately want to get out. So I want to graduate this year and apply to colleges right now (yeah...not much time left....whatever, I'll deal).</p>
<p>The only problem is that most of the schools I'm interested in require the SAT I and/or ACT for admissions - and I've done really well on all the practice tests I've taken and PSATs - but I hadn't been counting on taking the SAT until early 2008 since I was going to apply to college my senior year. I realize the deadline for most schools is January 15th, but is this a deadline for just the applications forms/essays, or absolutely everything? I thought maybe some schools would accept the January 26th SAT because after all, they don't ask for financial aid applications until a month or so after the application deadline...do some schools accept this? Or do I absolutely need everything in by Jan. 15th? Also, if I could take the tests a bit later, would the Feb. 9th ACT be too late (since they need to make a decision by March or April)?</p>
<p>If anyone knows about this, I would greatly appreciate any information! If I can't do this, I might just wait until next year (though I'm not sure how I can...I hate school SO much!) - my no-SAT-required options are basically Bard and Hampshire, both wonderful schools, but who wants two options?</p>