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[quote=Anonymous]Okay, so a few months ago, I made a thread explaining that my parents started me in school a year late. My birthday's October 1st, 2000 and the cutoff where I live is the new year, which meant that I should have gone to Kindergarten in the fall of 2005, yet my parents purposely waited until the fall of 2006 to send me. In the thread I made back in September, I expressed my desire to go to college in a state with a September(or earlier) cut-off, as those states wouldn't have allowed me or anyone else with an October birthday to start until being almost 6, which means that I would fit in a lot better at that out-of-state university.

I might share that all through my schooling career, I've tried desperately to get into my rightful grade. Every year I tried to skip a grade, but always failed, which was admittedly my fault. However, when I got to high school, I really wanted to take advantage of the option to graduate in 3 years instead of 4, but my parents wouldn't let me. They also wouldn't let me take more than one AP course during a school-year or enroll in community college during high-school. As a result, I'll enter college with only 6 units of AP credit. My wish to attend college in state with a September cut-off has been my one of more recent attempts to blend in with the crowd. However, after many arguments with my parents, that has failed too. I am going to a local state college this fall.

Now, my parents are trying to prevent me from doing the last thing I can do to catch up. If I take 12 units this summer, 15 units during the fall and spring semesters, and then another 12 units during the following, that, combined with my 6 units of AP credit will give me 60 units, which means that I'll be a junior in the fall of 2020, instead of a sophomore. However, my parents think that I'll fail in summer classes and will be worth the money. If I just go to school in the regular semesters, and take 18 units a semester, I'll graduate in 3.5 years in the fall of 2022, which would still be better than graduating in the spring of 2023. But my parents have said they won't let me take more than 15 units a semester.

If I take out student loans, then I'll be able to take whatever classes I want, whenever I want, but I need my parents' cooperation when it comes to filling out those forms, and of course they won't cooperate, which I don't understand. This would save them so much money. They seem to think that I'll acquire a greater debt than I'll be able to repay if I take out student loans, which I know I won't do. I just don't know what to do at this point. You'd think my parents would realize after 13 years that holding me back from Kindergarten was a mistake, yet they are not interested in fixing it.[/quote]

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