<p>Hello, how can I exit high school earlier. I live in BC, Canada. I am willing to travel anywhere in North America to give a test that will give me some sort of certificate that I can use to go to collage. I am in grade 10 and I will be turning 15 in little over a month so I can’t give the CHSPE. Help would be really nice, I am very desperate.</p>
<p>Bump. Anyone?</p>
<p>I’m not sure if Canada’s system is any different, but in the United States you generally have to go through your school if you want to graduate early…usually schools have graduation requirements (though I’m sure they get waived sometimes) and you can’t just take a test and graduate. Talk to the guidance counselor (or whoever is in charge of stuff like this) at your school.
Also, I think there are usually better options than graduating early, especially if you want to get into a selective American university. Would local colleges allow you to take courses there while you’re still in high school?</p>
<p>But what about the CHSPE. You just take a test and graduate.</p>
<p>@Pen
Just apply to college. No rule you have to have a HS diploma. </p>
<p>If you get in you’re set. If not, consider online high school or MOOCs until you can take HS equivalency exam (here in US it is age 16 I think)</p>
<p>WHAT!? HOW!? Which colleges can I apply to? What things do I need? SAT’s? ACT’s? HS Transcripts?</p>
<p>A lot of colleges have required/recommended courses to apply, though.</p>
<p>Does anybody know a college without any prerequisites that i can major evolutionary biology.</p>
<p>Why do you want to leave early? High school is like the best time of life!</p>
<p>@Idominate
If high-school is actually “the best time of life” I would like to die.</p>
<p>If you are really unhappy with your current high school experience, you could always just transfer to another one.</p>
<p>@CultClassic
I have changed schools 3 times (2 public and 1 private) and its not even 2 years yet. I just hate the dynamic of high-school. I want to learn what I want (evo bio and theoretical physics) with educated teachers and eager students. Unfortunately this is non-existent in high-school.</p>
<p>@pen could you take classes at a local college?</p>
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<p>I think you have an unrealistic/idealized view of what college is like…college has handouts and boring lectures and stupid kids doing stupid things just like at high school. Most American colleges also have distribution requirements.
If you’ve gone to three high schools in two years and you’ve hated them all (assuming you aren’t living in an unusually bad area), the problem is probably more with you than with the schools. You’re going to find something to be unhappy with in college too.
If you want to get into a selective college where there’s a greater likelihood of getting the kind of experience you want, staying in high school and developing your extracurriculars/essays/relationships with teachers would be the best thing to do.
AFAIK almost all universities would require an applicant without a high school diploma to have taken certain courses in high school, and their requirements are usually more extensive than what can be covered by the end of sophomore year.</p>
<p>@pen if you really want to learn college-level stuff, try online open-courses (ie MIT OCW). High quality courses, free, and flexible. You just don’t get credit, but it seems like you just want more of a challenge.</p>
<p>Stay in high school. You learn a lot of things there that aren’t spelled out to you. As messed up as it is, the education system is somewhat successful in this regard.</p>
<p>“Learning what you want” in college can’t be justified without you having to build your work ethic and finding yourself during high school.</p>
<p>You are not mature enough, and I sincerely doubt that you are capable of succeeding without 4 years of high school.</p>
<p>So get this thought out of your mind and think about how you can improve your high school experience rather than trying to take a shortcut and just leave early.</p>
<p>@jheone
I strongly disagree with your opinion,
High-school is fun and a good experience for some people (for example some of my friends and my mom) but its horrifying for some people. I belive I have already “found myself”. I have liberal political views, I enjoy playing the electric guitar, I enjoy listening to the Beatles, I am agnostic, I know I’m a procrastinator and I have a very good memory. I’ve discovered myself already. The more I stay in high-school; the more depressed I get.</p>
<p>If you are depressed, I highly doubt that going to college will change that.
I certainly don’t think high school is the best time of anyone’s life…I just don’t think you should leave because you feel disillusioned with it. In all likelihood you’re not going to be able to get into the kind of college you want to go to. You’re just not prepared enough, and international admissions is hard enough as it is.
(I also don’t think you’ve “found yourself,” because the self is not a permanent unchanging thing that can be found. We are teenagers…we haven’t yet become all that we will become, or at least I certainly hope we haven’t. Always be open to change.)</p>
<p>no offense, but you sounds really immature… definitely not ready yet for college. " I have liberal political views, I enjoy playing the electric guitar, I enjoy listening to the Beatles, I am agnostic, I know I’m a procrastinator and I have a very good memory. I’ve discovered myself already. " so what? a lot of middle school students “discovered” themselves already but still going through high school. just stay in high school and try to be more involved with school activities</p>
<p>You could take courses online. The university of missouri offers online high school classes through their mu high school. Are you being bullied or anything? Or are you just bored. Because as stated earlier there are plenty of boring lectures in college also .</p>