graduating HS a semester early?

PianoGal
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:23:10 +0000

hi everyone! Hope your winter break is going well!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

:)

I was skimming the planbook we have @ our high school and I came across ‘Early Graduation’. Now I’m really interested in it, because I would do anything to get out of high school early and do something more productive. I would be graduating a semester early in my senior year (I am currently a junior). What I need to graduate is one more year of english and one more year of history (Gov and econ). Before I came across this, I was planning on taking Gov. and Econ. online over summer through Indiana University HS just because I want to get it over with.

This is my schedule now (AP sciences are 2 period long)
English 11 H
AP Chem
Span. 4 H
Orchestra!!!
Lunch
AP Bio
Pre-Calc H

As a senior this is what I was planning on my schedule:
AP Physics
AP Calc
AP Span 5
AP Lang
Lunch
Orchestra
(empty-idk what course yet)
(Empty-idk what course yet)

I have a 4.33 GPA right now, by the end of this year I will have taken 5 science courses, 4 Spanish courses, 4 math courses, 3 english courses, and 2 history courses.

I have no idea if collegeboard allows people to take AP tests after the student graduates, because these courses could give significant college credit. I don’t know if colleges would accept these as credit if the student passes well after they graduate because these tests happen well into the 2nd semester after graduating. I was hoping if they did allow this, I could take AP Lang over the summer as well and pass it, and take the test when I needed to.

I really don’t care about the social parts of high school because I do not have a social life. I spent this winter break working, studying, reading, playing some video games, and sleeping a lot. I don’t have many friends at all, maybe one or two, but they’re too busy for anything. I have never been to a dance so i really could care less about prom.

In college I’m really interested in majoring in Biology and going off from there. I am extremely passionate about birds so I would love to study them or do something with them in my future. I work at the library and I come across a BUNCH of really cool topics I didn’t even know existed and I want to learn about them allll.

IF I decide to do this, would entering a large university in the spring semester or fall semester be best? We are a family trying to save money and CC courses after graduation would result in us having to spend money. I don’t want to graduate just to sit around the house and do nothing, I really want to learn things just for the sake of learning. It’s fun and it can never hurt. If I did graduate a semester early

I’m pretty sure I’m forgetting something, but I was wondering what the rest of you think. Should i talk to my counselor about it? Do you think it’s a good idea to do this (ignoring all social aspects of it)?

if I did this I might use the extra semester to either study for the AP tests if I can still take them for credit, study just for my own sake, do volunteer work in some cool places (most likely in state…gotta love parents). That following summer I could do an internship at a local hospital that allows high school graduates to intern before entering their first year of college.

Also, I’m looking at applying to: Stanford, Berkeley, Ohio State, U of Mich., Mich. State, Miami University in Ohio

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