How old were you when you graduated high school?

United States
June 26, 2008 10:57pm CST
I attended a 5A school graduated when I was 18 years old. I wonder if anyone skipped grades to graduate at an early age?
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@kellys3ps (3723)
• United States
18 Aug 08
I graduated a year early at 17. My oldest son will be 16 when he graduates high school.
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• Philippines
18 Aug 08
i'd say I have a normal age fro all the levels I have graduated from. I finish high school at the age of 16which is the normal are in my country. I didn't stop or repeat any levels.. after high school, I directly took collage and didn't have any break or to get some working experience which is one of the things I regret.. but still its okay, I was able to finish collage.
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• Philippines
27 Jun 08
i graduated from high school when i was sixteen years old. i never stopped schooling, i was not accelerated, and i didnt skipped school. so that's why i graduated just in time, just as what it should be.
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@walijo2008 (4644)
• United States
28 Jun 08
I went to a 4A school..I was 17 yrs.old when I graduated, but the thing is, my birthday was the next day, then I turned 18..lol
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@hellcowboy (7374)
• United States
27 Jun 08
I graduated high school when I was nineteen because I did not start school until I was six,and I was always a year or two older than my friends,which is pretty cool lol.
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@ashly1979 (1376)
• United States
27 Jun 08
i never did graduate ottster. my mommy kept me home from school, and i had to work on helping keep the house clean for my mommy.
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@pearl1003 (668)
• Philippines
20 Jul 08
I was 17 when i graduated from high school.... I didnt skip any level.
@robert19ph (4577)
• Philippines
18 Aug 08
[i]Hello ottster, In our country we don't have Grade seven and eight. So from Grade six, where your graduated primary schooling and you go directly to high school. We don't have a middle school. I basically graduated high school at about sixteen years old. Enter college or university study about seventeen years old. It seems sixteen years old is too young to go out by yourself in the university but so far it is working fine. Our government is planning to add Grade seven for a variety of reasons. I hope they keep it the old way, since kids now are starting to learn very early. I see two and three years old going to prep or day care. Sorry, I was not good enough to skip grades. Have a nice day. [/i]
• United States
22 Jul 08
I skipped a bit and graduated at 15. Since I'd already taken the courses I needed for high school, but they didn't want anybody graduating at 13, they sent me to the University of Florida for 11th grade. Those might seem like good things, but it was terrible. An important part of a kid's education is gaining social maturity. Since I was so much younger than the kids around me, I couldn't do the things they did (like drive or stay out late), they sort of ignored me unless they wanted help with academics. I don't recommend skipping at all, because missing that part of my life has left me something of a hermit outside of work and my husband. It's really not great! I'm very happy, but I know I should have friends; I don't really know how!
@allen0187 (58582)
• Philippines
19 Aug 08
i graduated fairly young in highschool. i started highschool when i was ten and i graduated when i was 14 years old. no, i'm not a child prodigy and i wasn't a nerd either. i just started young in school and was lucky enough to skip a full year in elementary becasue of academic excellence. i graduated from college when i was 18 and started working full time for a pre-need company at 19. it was interestign being a kid in an otherwise teenage setting . it had its ups and downs but defintiely the ups far outweighed the downs. i had nothign but good memories in highschool.
• United States
30 Jun 08
i am seventeen. and i just graduated but i turn eighteen this month.
@dreamssri (1796)
• India
24 Jul 08
when i gratuated high school iwas 17(and still now im 17!!)...believe me!!! Goodday, Sri
• United States
25 Jul 08
I was 18 when i graduated, i even dropped out for half of the school year, but i still graduated on time.
• United States
14 Aug 08
Well I was 35 when I graduated from High school because I had dropped out of school. Bad choice on my part to drop out.
@Bd200789 (2994)
• United States
30 Jun 08
I was seventeen when I graduated a year ago. I graduated a year early.