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[JTB7]

So I perused your posting history. What I saw was a high schooler who hasn't yet figured out what he wants to do with his life. Given that, STAY IN SCHOOL. So far you've started threads about PLC, NROTC, USNA, and Recon. If you graduate high school, then you will one less obstacle in your way to getting into whatever option you pick.

What's going to happen when you're in college and all you can think about is flying jetz? Do you think there will be some magic shortcut you can take there? Stay in school. Do the dual enrollment thing if you want. But don't drop out of high school because you think you're above it.

You wouldn't believe how many seniors I know have absolutely no idea what they want to do, they just go wherever life takes them. I was just exploring my options, and I am sure of what I want to do. To be honest, I love science and math and just want to study that more.

I can think of plenty of "hippy classes" that are great to be in. If you haven't taken a Journalism class in a state school you're missing out, and if you complain about it, your gay. No, not "ghey," I mean actually homosexual. All the hotties want to be on TV.

Haha, my friend took that as a senior and only showed up half the time and got an A.

As far as the dual enrollment thing, I will just take advanced classes at a city college over the summer to study higher level math and physics. Then :sleep_125 through all my classes senior year

 

[xmid]

I took a college trig/pre-calc class the summer before my Junior year in high school to get ahed and be able to take AP Calc as a Junior. I thought it would be cool to take college calc 2 and 3 my senior year... It wasn't... And juggling college classes as a high school senior makes playing sports and being "normal" difficult. In the end I gave up on the idea and was my football coaches student aid for 2 hours in the afternoons. I would recommend taking a few college classes over taking a few AP classes. The college classes I thought were quite a bit easier, and you don't have to deal with the AP test/score equivalencies. Just about any college is going to take a credit for English 1 or calc 1...

 

[FLYTPAY]

I would recommend taking a few college classes over taking a few AP classes. The college classes I thought were quite a bit easier, and you don't have to deal with the AP test/score equivalencies. Just about any college is going to take a credit for English 1 or calc 1...

+1, great advice, I took all AP classes and guess how many of the AP tests I scored high enough for credit on? ZERO.

 

[Schnugg]

I am tired of my High School and I want to study what I want to study such as aeronautical engineering or computer science, not the bullshit underwater-basket weaving courses I am going to take my senior year. If take the GED the summer of my junior year, and pass I will go to a community college and transfer to a better college. I graduate from college a year earlier, so I could get a masters degree earlier. Would the OSO think I am an idiot for getting a GED and wanting to get a flight contract through PLC? Would the Marine Corps/Navy in general look down upon a GED student even though he did well in college?

I did just fine with my merit badge and degree.

Damn...I've been waiting a long time to use that...

 

[srqwho]

For what it's worth, I took mostly dual enrollment courses my senior year and started college with 2 semesters in the bag, which meant I graduated a year early... which is what you want right? I remember all my buds who didn't take DE classes were pissing and moaning their freshman year of college in courses that had an enrollment of over a thousand students and to the instructor you were only a number. Take advantage of FREE college credits by taking DE classes, and you'll also avoid the normal freshman gen-ed requirements at the same time. And taking the DE classes, b/c they were more difficult, helped me transition into college course work, which is obviously more difficult.

 

[jt71582]

I did just fine with my merit badge and degree.

Damn...I've been waiting a long time to use that...

"Given at Berkeley" +1, nice touch.