Don’t give up on your education. Go to your local community college as soon as possible and ask to speak to a counselor there and tell him/her your situation. I don’t know what the requirements are, but even if they don’t accept you as a degree-seeking student, they might allow you to take some classes. Also ask them what you need to do in order to get admitted. Ask them if you can be admitted on a probationary status for a certain period (for a certain number of credits) and if you do well, they’ll change your status to full-time admitted student. This is very probable, so go soon to find out what your chances are and what you need to do.

Stay hopeful, work really hard and promise yourself that never again are you going to sabotage yourself academically (like purposely choosing wrong answers on the ACT), professionaly or personally.

I bet you’re really smart, you just have some problems that require professional help. I think you should take time out this year, after you graduate from high school, to try to find a way to solve these problems, because they will only continue and therefore follow you into college and college will academically be a repeat of high school. Hopefully you have a supportive family who is willing to do what it takes to help you.

If you have a learning disability, try to get as much help as possible (this is really important). Stay away from the honors courses in college until you excel in regular courses. If it’s been a family situation that’s hindered your chances from doing well, I hope that things get better and you can start focusing on yourself. I don’t want to just make the assumption that it was just bad choices that led to your poor grades, I know that things happen in life that make it very difficult to do well or even care enough to do well. But hopefully that’s all over, if that’s the case with you. Good luck.

You “chose the wrong answers on purpose” on your ACT exam? Why would you do that? There are teens in other countries dying for an education, much less a free one, and you squander your opportunities. Nice. And you blame your counselor, instead of taking responsibility. Well, you’d better get ready to be responsible, because the real world operates much differently, and I doubt your folks are going to want to subsidize any more years of future foolishness.

The fast answer – no, don’t drop out. Bagging groceries for the rest of your life isn’t as glamorous as it sounds. However, it does sound like you may need counseling of a different kind. You sound like you’ve just given up, and trust me, in ten years you are going to look back on your choice with great regret. See a counselor for stress (or depression, if the case may be).

Finish your general education, then either go to community college, clean up your GPA and transfer to a 4-year, or learn a trade that will help you become self-sufficient. Good luck, I hope you give yourself a chance to succeed.

Sounds as if you chose to drop out a while ago. I don’t want to preach to you, especially since I do not know you nor your circumstance, but before you actually close this door and do harm to your life, do a bit of research. This decision doesn’t only affect you now but for the rest of your life. You will always have to explain the decision to drop out for the rest of your life. .

A dollars and cents approach may open your eyes. Check out the kinds of jobs that a high school drop out works. Check out how much money these jobs pay. Multiply that times your lifetime. Look how much more earnings a high school degree might provide. Then look at an AA degree, a college degree and then perhaps advanced degrees if you choose..

Now there are, I’m sure, many people who have dropped out of high school that have made lots of money and have had lots of success. But the odds are really stacked against you and since there is no one that knows the future we can only go by statistics to get a bit of a picture.

If there is one thing that I have learned in life it is that no one is guaranteed success and it always takes a lot of hard work. That includes studying, work or anything else of value.

It sounds to me that you aren’t unintelligent. You just haven’t been willing to work hard enough to get better grades. You seem to always take the easy way out and then try and justify the failure by thinking to yourself that “the door was always closed” etc etc. I suspect that if you really wanted to and were persistent enough you could have figured a way to see that counselor. Let me tell you that there are a millions excuses you can give yourself for failing. I’m too old, I’m too young, I’m not smart enough,m they were luckier than I, I come from a poor family etc etc. All are easy ways out. The only reason anyone succeeds is that they worked hard for it and wouldn’t accept any of these excuses for themselves.

Get that high school degree. You may need to grow up some before you see the value of it but at least you are past this hurdle if you ever change your mind and try to raise your sights.

believe me doing bad in highschool is NOT the end of the world. i did horribly in highschool myself. i failed a lot and barely graduated with a c- average. i went to a crappy 4 year college my first year did really well and transfered out of there into a way better college with good GPA. hang in there kid.