I totally agree. High school is for building a strong academic foundation, not skipping ahead. The highly specialized plans you were hoping for combined with the classes you seemingly already skipped just aren’t a good foundation. From what you’ve shared, I’m not sure you would meet your state’s high school graduation requirements. There will be plenty of time to specialize in college and beyond.
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OP has already taken biology, and APES is less than ideal given their goals. But, if those are the only two choices at their HS for 11th/12th, then that decision is made.
OP’s real issue with the new plan that the parents have seemingly dug in on is going to be math, where OP is advanced and Calc III and diffeq aren’t options at local public HS they will be attending. Hopefully the parents can allow DE and/or early college courses at least in math. AP Stats won’t cut it for OP, and we don’t even know that’s an option.
Separately, OP should make sure they will meet all the graduation criteria from their state, but based on the location/type of state OP resides in, I expect they do. I also second or third the point about OP preparing well for the PSAT test this fall.
Lastly, I do think OP might benefit from slowing their roll so to speak because engineering is the target college major and engineering doesn’t easily allow for acceleration. With that said, there are many HS students coming from schools with specialized offerings as OP laid out in their original post. Nothing wrong with those per se as long as they are a good fit for the student and align with their ultimate goals.
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Based on the classes taken (shared subsequently - in the second middle of the thread?) OP likely meets all HS requirements. The problem is that they’re not sufficient for most selective colleges that he’s right he could qualify for.
Another wrench is if their parents really forbid them from being part of concurrent enrollment they don’t have any math to take - and while Environmental science is very important, the college version would be better for their goal.
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No it ended up not being about the classes. They said that they just wanted me to graduate and that they wished they sent me to the public high school from the start. I was also told that they believed that I didn’t deserve the spot at option #2 because I wanted to pivot to the state flagship.
Their ultimate reason wasn’t the balance of the classes, just that they weren’t comfortable with the idea and didn’t want to hear it. They said that they are tired of me pivoting (upwards) where I go to school and didn’t want to keep doing it.
I asked them what was wrong with that, eg if I did well at the state uni and got into a foreign study program and was just told they weren’t comfortable with that.
How should I approach that? I tried of course, but it didn’t really work.
EDIT: It doesn’t really matter to me why they are thinking like this, just how I deal with it.
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We’re going to put our adult brains together to try and see what could be done. 
If there was no fight about the classes, it’s good news.
Are your parents supportive of your going to college? Going to college OOS?
Definitely spend time preparing for the PSAT. If you score high enough it’ll give you independence and a choice of colleges offering scholarships in case your family balk at college costs. If they dont it won’t hurt.
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I haven’t taken the PSAT yet. My state is an ACT state, so I took the ACT in 10th and got a 32. I don’t really get the PSAT grading scale, so what kind of an ACT score (comparatively), do I need to get those benefits.
They are I guess. They are telling me I’ll still get into a top school with their plan. I just don’t see why a college would pick me from their plan over either option 1 or 2, and I don’t think they are willing to think critically about that.
You will have to take the PSAT when it’s offered this fall at your HS. (Hopefully it’s offered at your HS.) Here are the projected state cutoffs for 2026 (so they may increase for you in 2027):
This has the formula for how the PSAT index score is calculated:
Alabama and Tulsa still offer big $ for NMFs, you can also read this thread:
Read my post above about your math issue, it will be difficult to go to a ‘top’ engineering school if you can’t take more math rigor in both 11th and 12th.
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What high school have you been attending?
What college, if any, do they prefer you attend, if not the state flagship?
I’m not seeing 4 years total of English as well as only having single semester science classes, only 2 semesters of foreign language, and no PE or financial literacy courses. Obviously, each state is different, but this wouldn’t cut it in many states.
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Like the name of it or like what it was?
What kind of high school it was, not the name that would identify it specifically.
As far as I can tell OPs school is on block scheduling so that 1 semester = 3 or 4 compressed year long courses.
PE and Financial literacy aren’t required everywhere (or OP may simply have skipped listing them if they consider them non academic).
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I am sure OP has read multiple times on this thread that they will have to make sure they meet their state grad requirements, so I expect they can manage that task. HS grad requirements can be surprisingly lax in many states, especially states that don’t prioritize K-12 education. Even in Illinois, no foreign language has been required to graduate HS (but that change is coming for 9th graders entering 2028-29 school year when two yrs will be required.)
ETA: Note that at OP’s 9th/10th charter HS each semester course was equivalent to one year at a typical HS. I would expect this was all approved at the state level because if not, lots of students would be having lots of HS grad and/or college admission issues.
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You’ll need to take the NMQT- PSAT in October - it’s the only test that would qualify you for National Merit scholarships. Email your guidance counselor to see if the school offers it. If it doesn’t, ask how students can take it.
A 32 is roughly equivalent to a 1450 on the SAT scale.
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Yes, this is correct. It was a charter school.
We did have to do financial literacy, but they just called it economics. I did a triple A sport ( I think this is what they called it, I forgot), so I got out of taking PE.
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Just to be clear, your parents won’t let you continue at your charter HS?
I’m already unenrolled from there.
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And you can’t/don’t want to re-enroll? Just asking, I don’t have complete info so don’t even know if that would be a better option than your public HS or not.
It’s certainly better than a public high school, but I can’t reenroll because the deadline was back in February.
Well, if it’s true it’s better AND your parents would allow it, you might contact the charter school and ask if they can make an exception and allow you to re-enroll because your parents aren’t allowing Options 1 and 2 above (which is the reason you didn’t re-up in February.) They might say no, but maybe they would say yes.
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