# Where Did You Get Your High School Diploma (or Equivalent)? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 5, 2009, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677 "2009-10-05T15:38:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/21 "2009-10-05T20:38:56Z")
Non-boarding prep school, so there’s no option for me to pick. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/22 "2009-10-05T20:43:44Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > Non-boarding prep school, so there’s no option for me to pick. How is that different from a private high school? ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/23 "2009-10-05T20:53:49Z")
Science/engineering/technology magnet school in Buffalo, New York. Buffalo had one of the earliest network of magnet schools (which are much different than charter schools, because they fall under the public school district) in the US. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/24 "2009-10-05T21:01:20Z")
Hey **legalsnugs** : I see that you picked “Boarding School.” Would you mind starting an “Ask the Guy (or Girl) Who Went to Boarding School” thread? I’ll bet you’d get a lot of responses! ---
**Author:** ![JR\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/25 "2009-10-05T22:02:30Z")
Sorta-kinda home-schooled, in that my mom bought me lots of books but didn’t really make a (successful) attempt to get me to read things outside of my unprodded interests. Got a GED, then went to a Snooty Elite College and a Likewise Snooty Elite Grad School. ---
**Author:** ![Hirundo82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/919ad9/32.png) [@Hirundo82](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hirundo82)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/26 "2009-10-05T22:49:30Z")
I was homeschooled, then got my GED at 16 as it was required for full-time attendance at the local community college. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/27 "2009-10-05T23:24:50Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > How is that different from a private high school? Some private high schools aren’t prep schools. It’s a totally different culture and set of expectations. ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/28 "2009-10-06T02:45:23Z")
Council Rock High School - Newtown PA. Class of 1979. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/29 "2009-10-06T18:08:26Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Hey **legalsnugs** : I see that you picked “Boarding School.” Would you mind starting an “Ask the Guy (or Girl) Who Went to Boarding School” thread? I’ll bet you’d get a lot of responses! I wrote a bit about my boarding school experiences in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10013585#post10013585). ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/30 "2009-10-06T18:50:05Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > Some private high schools aren’t prep schools. It’s a totally different culture and set of expectations. No, but all prep schools are private high schools - so you do have an option to check. ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/31 "2009-10-06T19:01:25Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > No, but all prep schools are private high schools - so you do have an option to check. There is a difference though, between, say, Choate or Groton on the one hand versus Overland Park Day School on the other. But those (Ten Schools and their ilk) are all boarding schools. Unless he went to one of the NYC ones like Dwight or Collegiate. And if so, I can see why he’d be reluctant to admit it. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/32 "2009-10-06T22:41:30Z")
I went to a public high school that was also a Catholic high school. There was no requirement to actually be Catholic, or to take Communion at masses or do the daily prayer in the morning. In fact, the only thing that differed from the other schools was that we had a mandatory Christian Ethics course, there was religious imagery all over the place, and the only room big enough to hold the entire school was the cathedral across the street so that’s where assemblies were held. ---
**Author:** ![Otanx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Otanx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otanx)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/33 "2009-10-06T23:05:47Z")
> [@Hirundo82](#): > > I was homeschooled, then got my GED at 16 as it was required for full-time attendance at the local community college. Same here. Homeschooled from 6th grade. Didn’t really have a specific class schedule. Just studied what I wanted. In WA the school had to allow homeschoolers to attend class if we wanted. I took classes that my mom couldn’t teach. I took 2 years of Spanish I, took alot of math classes, typing, and shop. At 16 I got my GED, and started taking classes at the community college. Never did get a degree. Just turned 30, and am now looking at going back. -Otanx ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/34 "2009-10-06T23:30:29Z")
Public high school in rural southeastern Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/35 "2009-10-06T23:35:19Z")
I went to World Famous Hollywood High. No joke they actually call it that. I am not actual sure that it’s world famous, or why they would think that it was. We did have a fair number of celebrities graduate in the past, but a few years after I graduated I am told that its performance was so poor that it was taken over by the federal government. I haven’t looked into the veracity of that story though. Anyway, while my diploma says Hollywood High, I happened to go to the performing arts magnet school that was housed within the larger school. So I picked the Magnet school option. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/36 "2009-10-07T00:57:30Z")
Public School freshman year, but my parents noticed I wasn’t bring books home and got great grades, so off to Private, college prep school, Beaufort Academy in Beaufort, SC. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/37 "2009-10-07T01:35:12Z")
I dropped out of high school, goofed around for a year, then studied for thirty minutes and got a GED. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/38 "2009-10-07T01:41:01Z")
GED earners reprazent; I dropped out of HS in 9th grade when my Latin teacher retired (why bother staying? :)). I actually earned my GED after I already had my AA (Yes, I about snoozed through it and earned a 99th percentile). I only got it to qualify for financial aid at my upper div institution. I sat for the GED on my 25th birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/39 "2009-10-07T01:55:41Z")
No army brats? I was educated by the Department of Defense. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677/40 "2009-10-07T01:57:39Z")
Pioneer High, class of '72. Go Mustangs! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-high-school-diploma-or-equivalent/512677.md?page=3)