Kid at my church had a college degree, wife, kid, and career by the time he was 18.
My motivations were simpler: Freshman year at University looked WAY MORE INTERESTING AND FUN than senior year at High School.
My Senior year in HS was going to be nothing but AP courses and college credit classes... I took the SATs a year early 'for practice' (fairly common) and my score was excellent. Neither I nor my parents saw the point. Why not just go to college? So in the spring of my Junior year in HS we decided to send out some applications and see what happened. ...what happened was that one of the local colleges said yes. It was not a great school but I did a couple semesters there and then transferred out to the University of my choice.
...and I was right. University was indeed way more enjoyable than HS
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