Nobody gave me that option. I'm sure I could have passed the GED in 9th grade.
I guess what I'm saying is that it's not that "most teenagers aren't driven enough," though that may be true, you also have to have your parents or someone pushing for it.
Nobody gave me that option.
Nobody gave me that option either. That is what I meant when i said 'Most kids are not driven enough'
And passing a GED is not really required. I had not done that when I applied. It was all about being confident in myself and writing a decent essay that explained my situation. I said "High School is just holding me back." and I meant it and believed it... and that was enough for the admissions office given my grades and SAT. I did not get my GED untill after I had already started classes at University.
None of these rules are rules. They are all guidelines. Guidelines put in place to cater to the least common denominator. If you are NOT the least common denominator you can do much better for your self if you advocate for yourself and have ambition. At the time my ambition was to fuck college girls when I was 17... but it worked out well for me.
HS should be college. There is no good excuse for kids in highschool to not be taking classes amongst their real peers, of their intelligence, acceptance rates, and interests, instead of just who ever the fuck is in their common zipcode that plopped out some kids who should have already dropped out by now.
I don't think any single state allows you to "test out" of HS with a GED. Many / some allow you to "drop out" / "flunk out" then get the GED. So I ask - How did Eileen Gu get out of HS early? That's not standardly allowed.
I know that some kids do it. I don't really know what the mechanism is. I thought that they get their GED. But they go to college when they're like 12. So I don't know how that's recorded -- as dropping out or whatever. That's for going to college though. Athletes are usually tutored which counts as going to school and is in the same category as home schooling.
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