Student goes to MIT without a highschool diploma

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@RacinReaver

One of my colleagues never finished high school and wound up with both a BS and PhD from Caltech. He started going to a community college around tenth grade, I think he switched to full time there eventually, and transferred to be a undergrad at Caltech (then stuck around to do his PhD in a fairly short amount of time).

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<p>It not that unusual for colleges to accept transfer students based on previous college work in the absence of a high school diploma (or any high school at all). For example, nothing from high school is required for junior transfer admission to California public universities.</p>