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[quote=Anonymous]I didn’t want to go to college but I did and pretty much failed out within 2 years. I left school then and my parents told me they loved me but their financial support was done since I wasn’t in school.

So I worked. Hard. At a lot of different kinds of jobs - some good, some bad. Eventually I figured out college and more predictable work with greater earning potential (and health insurance!) was a better plan so I went back to school. I overachieved, went to law school (T50, not T20 but still very respectable), and am doing just fine as a GS15 fed lawyer.

Looking back, I wonder what would have happened if I went to community college part time and worked whatever random jobs I could find instead of going to a big state college after HS. Or, like a PP suggested, applied and then deferred for a year. I just know that I was totally uninterested in and totally unprepared for college when I was 18, despite being a merit scholar in HS. It was a very expensive and distressing mistake for me to go then. [/quote]

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