<p>LaughaholicMD - </p>
<p>It can’t hurt at all to look at all your options in terms of skipping senior year, taking the GED and going to college or finding other dual-enrollment schools besides that CC. Definitely call the colleges you’re thinking of and see what they can do for you. Don’t be afraid to explain the whole situation to them - often they’ll waive things like letters of recommendation from teachers if you have a good reason (which you do). You’ll definitely also need to check website for deadlines; you may not be able to apply for Fall but instead for Spring semester at this point at some schools.</p>
<p>Further, I don’t know your whole situation so I can’t say for sure, but have you thought about how much control your principals/teachers really have over you? I think you might be overestimating how much power they objectively have. You can GIVE them power by choosing not to do something because it might disappoint them, but if your parents/guardians are letting you skip senior year or drop out and take the GED, then your school principal doesn’t have authority to stop you.</p>
<p>However, the courses available at your HS that you listed seem perfectly fine to me. If you’re able to take 4 AP courses during high school, that’s more than a lot of people. Colleges never expect you to take more honors/AP courses than the number offered by your HS - just the fact that you max out whatever’s offered to you is what they’re looking for if your HS doesn’t offer many options. Just make sure that at your particular high school, you are able to get the minimum number of classes in each subject required to apply to most colleges (I think this is typically 4 years of English, 3 years of math/science, 2 years of foreign language… check college websites to be sure). There should be more to your decision about leaving or staying at your HS than simply whether or not you can take courses that will help you get into college. Are there other reasons you want to leave, like a discouraging principal? Are there any reasons you want to stay? Is transferring to a public high school an option?</p>
<p>I can’t say for sure, but it sounds like maybe you don’t have many people in your life that you can ask about the college admissions process. If that’s true, and if by chance you’re in the New York area, check out an organization called Footsteps - you can find their website and contact information on Google. They work with Orthodox Jews and Hasidic Jews, and they offer assistance navigating the process of applying to college. If not, see what your states offer in terms of help applying to colleges. I tried searching “[insert state name here] help applying to college” and it yielded some results at .gov websites.</p>
<p>Edit: If you go to the Footsteps website it looks like they only work with “ultra-Orthodox” - but from what I understand they also work with Orthodox Jews.</p>