Anyone a high school drop out who later graduated college?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

Me!

:hi: :grouphug: :yourock: :popcorn:

[efhmc]

1. No,but big congratulations to you. That must be HARD.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

2. Thanks!

[Nite Owl]

4. Congratulations!

That's the degree that can mean something.

[MidwestMomma]

3. Not me, but that is awesome

and so are you.

Congratulations!

:yourock:

[Longgrain]

5. Me too, forced to drop out of High Scool, due to "personal issues"

but I never gave up.

I got my GED one week before the class I would have graduated received their diplomas (something I was always proud of), took a year off to work before going to a community college, where I got an Associates Degree in Art.

I still don't have a bachelor's degree, but I'm planning on working on it.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

6. Do it! Do it! Do it!

Behind you 100%!

[Longgrain]

10. Thanks, I was all set to go back last year,

But I had some unemployment issues in my family that I needed to help out with,

But things seem to be looking up recently.:thumbsup:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

11. Best to you!

[MidwestMomma]

8. That's impressive

Congratulations to you too!

:yourock:

[Longgrain]

12. Thanks, after getting my Associates I did try for a Bachelors

for two years, but I had a hard time getting financial aid, so I eventually dropped out of college (it was an art school, and art supplies were expensive!). That was almost ten years ago, but I'm willing to give it another try.

[joneschick]

18. it took me 8 years

going to school part-time to earn a degree in fashion design and I now work in banking. (making diddly squat) I have lots of art supplies left, what do you need?

[Longgrain]

25. Put them up in the Marketplace Forum

and we'll talk.

[joneschick]

26. you mean like

get off my butt and inventory *that* closet??? horrors. hold that thought. I'm not doing it tonight, but tomorrow when I get home from the protest I can go look.

[evlbstrd]

35. Do it, Longgrain!

You've got talent.

[Longgrain]

38. I'm going to try, that's all I can say...

And trying.

And trying.

And trying.

And trying...

[evlbstrd]

39. Believe me, I understand.

I had to get to art school through the Navy. And that was when there was still a G.I. Bill and federal financial aid.

[evlbstrd]

40. BTW, missed you at tonight's meetup.

It was a small group, but great people.

[Longgrain]

42. HUH?

:shrug:

Do you have me confused with someone else?

[evlbstrd]

43. I must. Sorry.

[blondeatlast]

7. Me--damn proud of it, too!

Congrats to ALL of us!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

9. Cool!

[RagingInMiami]

13. I dropped out of high school because I was such a stoner and hated school

I was 17 years old at the time. I ended up getting a GED at 20, and I started community college at 21. It took me three-and-a-half years to get an associates degree, which normally takes two years.

I then enrolled in the university and majored in journalism. I graduated when I was 26. After almost ten years of writing for newspapers, I am now a freelance writer.

Oh yeah, I also just started pursuing a master's degree.

[efhmc]

14. Well, that is quite an achievement and I salute you for it!

I loved college so much more than high school. to this day, I am suspicious of people who say that hs days were the best of their lives. Just do not understand that.

[RagingInMiami]

15. Exactly

I'm still trying to figure if anything I learned in high school can be applied to real life. By the time we got to high school, we already knew how to read and write and add and subtract and multiply and divide.

[Mr Rabble]

16. Congratulations! I am right there with you.

rehab/reform school @ 13.

Official dropout @ 18.

Bachelor of Science/ Information Technology.

Masters of Information Systems.

Soon to be MBA.

Late bloomer= no mid-life crisis.

[Longgrain]

17. Congrats, from one Late Bloomer to another...

:toast:

[joneschick]

19. still waiting to bloom. n/t

[sasquatch]

20. Why did you drop out of High School and how did you get back in College?

[amazona]

21. yes but it was easier years ago

Back in the day, if you had a certain score on the ACT, it was the equivalent of a GED. They haven't allowed high school drop-outs, no matter how high their test scores, to be admitted to my college since the later 80s. It's a shame. High school is such a waste of time for many high-functioning autistics and other nerds. But everything now is about maximizing the amount of time spent in school and out of the job market. Who cares if you're actually intellectually ready to do more?

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[5thGenDemocrat]

22. Well, kind of

I graduated GED in November of my junior year and went into the Army.
Seventeen years later, I received my AA from Delta Community College. But I think I like your story better.
John
It is now 30 days, 13 hours and 58 minutes to FUNDAY. Lots of smart people (and some, eh, not so smart ones) will be here.

[Wapsie B]

23. Congrats to you all!

I know that I felt like the weight of the world was off my shoulders when I finally got my BA. I dropped out of college in the 70's then waited 20 years to finally get the gumption to finish. But dropping out of high school would make it that much harder to get around to even attending college let alone graduating.

[Lady President]

24. Me!

I only dropped out of high school for a few months, but there was a time that I was officially a drop-out. (I used the word *only* but I don't think my parents would agree. :))

I did manage to get my high school diploma on time because I was ahead of schedule and took a very heavy load my senior year.

I took a couple years off after high school and then went to college. Now, I'm a lawyer. :applause:

[Bouncy Ball]

27. Congrats!!!

Way to go!

My husband dropped out of high school at 17 to join the Army. Then he got his GED. THEN someone told him the GED wasn't exactly the same as a diploma, that pissed him off, so he went to night school while in the Army to get a real high school diploma.

Later he finished two years of college and today he's extremely successful and just keeps moving up. He's amazing.

And to think, my parents said "Don't marry him, you'll never have a pot to piss in." HA!!! WRONG-O.

Anyway, congratulations, that's a big accomplishment!

[Longgrain]

29. In my case, I found going to a two year College added weight to the GED

So to speak, as if GED+ Community College=actually high school diploma.

I'll probably never get into Harvard, but it's something under my belt.

[blondeatlast]

28. My story (I posted before just prior to din-din!)

Lots of health problems in HS, physical and mental, kind of an endless cycle.

I missed so much I couldn't possibly keep up, and as an achiever, I couldn't face the idea of NOT grajjing with my class, so I left, pretty much with my wonderful mom and dad's blessing.

I got the head and body together, and as soon as I could, I took the GED, then enrolled in community college--as an HONORS student. Left after 2 years with no degree to be a, get this, travel agent, which I remained for several years.

Then I got laid off. To the university at 32--I even lived ON campus, graduated 1 1/2 years later.

I'm damn proud of myself--and all of us!

[Lindsey]

30. I managed to graduate high school even though I was living on

my own because of a very mentally ill mother. I then ended up pregnant at 17 and got married. My son had issues that I won't go into so I wasn't able to go to college until he was 18. At 36 years old I went to junior college and got my A.A. I was in a program for full-time working adults so I was able to finish in 5 semesters. Then it was on to Cal State (in another program for adults who had to work) and I finished in 2 years. The whole thing took only five years. I became a college graduate at 41 in 1998 - without question- the proudest accomplishment of my life!!!!!!!!!!

[blondeatlast]

31. Kudos, indeed! It means so much more when you have to work really hard

at it.

Amazing that you did it--reach around an pat yourself on the back for me, willya?!

[orleans]

32. Me!

dropped out two weeks before my sixteenth birthday.
talked to my high school counselor who wrote a "letter of recommendation" for me to get into the community college without a g.e.d when i was sixteen. got enough credits to get an A.A. but didn't take any "required" classes (math, science, etc.)because i didn't want to be bothered.

when i hit thirty i transfered all those credits to a four year college and decided to get my B.A. all without a high school diploma or a g.e.d.

[Withywindle]

33. By a technicality, me!

Different situation, though. I skipped my senior year and went away to college a year early. Supposedly I was supposed to fill out some paperwork when I'd taken the college equivalents of the HS classes I missed so I could get my HS diploma, but I hated my hometown and HS utterly, and thought only of blowing them off. So I never got a HS diploma.

No regrets. I was cocky and arrogant as hell, and while I was kind of a language/writing prodigy, I was also utterly inept in lots of other things (still am at 35). And I wasn't really mature enough. I really don't think another year in my HS environment would've made a damn bit of difference, though.

[evlbstrd]

34. I did it!

3.95 GPA, too, Mofo!

[ikojo]

36. I know someone who not only dropped out of

high school but graduated college with straight As...got a scholarship to a very good law school and graduated from law school top in his class. Many of the other students in his law school class had attended boarding school and Ivy League universities.

[candy]

37. Mr brother in-law dropped out of HS,then got his diploma and started-

a very good university,dropped out for 2 years and went in the service,came home,got his degree and then an MBA from a very prestigious business school.

He has done very well.

[Left Is Write]

41. Congratulations!

:hi:

[ChoralScholar]

44. I had a friend that dropped out of

our football-centric high school, because he was tired of the bullshit...

The school badmouthed him, saying he was a quitter, he'd never make it, etc.

He went on to become a Rhodes Scholar.

I saw an article in my hometown newspaper where the school is trying to take credit for 'preparing him for such an honor'

Prepared How? Our one-hour pep rallies? Dismissing school during football playoffs? What a joke.

[6000eliot]

45. B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.

Never went beyond 9th grade.