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GED, Diploma and College or Work... what to do (this will affect the rest of my life!)?

In a nutshell, I have been unsuccessful in a traditional school environment. I have excellent scores though. i had the highest score for the Pre GED exam in my district (765/ 800) I am 18 years old and i would require another year in school to graduate. i have already been kicked out of the schools in my district due to getting in fights. My iQ is 154, and my principal, teachers and I am even confident i could take the act and sat and get a free ride through college. my mom wrecked the only car we have so i have to work and buy a new one. I am either loved or hated, never in between because i have such a strong personality... and i dont deal well with idiots. as a matter of fact the way that i deal with drama would imply that i myself am an idiot. everyone says i am too old and mature for highschool and i will end up getting in trouble, and wasting my time when i could have had my GED and been done. My dad who is far wiser and smarter than I am... says that i will regret every day not getting my diploma and i will take it to my grave. I also know taht because of the clashes i have with my family it is also best that i find a place of my own to avoid conflict. i have been homeschooled before, but i suck at being disciplined enough to sit at the computer for hours by myself. and courses are expensive. i have no problems getting jobs, i currently work for national liberty life insurance making 10 an hour. My options are... 1) keep working until i can afford a car and try to go to a school in another district next year and quit work at the end of summer. suck it up and deal with them for another year. 2) Get my GED, take the tests go to college and keep working and move out sooner. 3) Keep working, buy homeschool courses, try to finish them and work full time. Move out sooner. delay going to college. Please give insightful ANSWERS, dont be an asswipe this isnt funny its a serious matter and i want real answers. any BS will be flagged.

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1. If the colleges you are looking at accept GEDs (some do not, but most do), then it does sound like it would be your best option to get your GED, and then move on to college asap. If your goal is college - and if you *complete* college - it won't matter if you have a GED or a traditional high school diploma. But you *must* complete college; otherwise, that GED could hold you back in certain circumstances (certain jobs, military are examples.) But if you complete a college degree, no one will care that you have a GED. Know, however, that due to your disciplinary issues (and depending on what your grades were like in high school), some four year colleges won't accept you. Target your colleges well, and be sure to keep community college in mind as an option. After all, if you do well in community college, it won't matter that you have a GED, and it won't matter what's on your HS record. All unis will care about is your cc record. You also may want to think through what's up with you re: these disciplinary issues. I know you say that you don't handle idiots well, but most people don't have such serious clashes with multiple people that they get tossed from school. Why do you react the way you do? How has that impacted your life? How might it impact you in the future? I'm not saying that you have to bow down before the idiots - not at all. But I am asking you to consider how your response is impacting your life, and if that's really how you want your life to go.