Get into a 'good college' where you are required to problem solve. I left high school early because I couldn't take the boring repetition of memorizing one thin

Get into a 'good college' where you are required to problem solve. I left high school early because I couldn't take the boring repetition of memorizing one thing after another with little analysis or discussion. There are early colleges you could consider, basically anything along the lines of http://www.simons-rock.edu/about http://www.simons-rock.edu/about. The big question with the 'good college' route is, have you done what I did in HS: barely skate by, try not to get completely bored. If you have, then an early college is probably the only way you are going to get into a 'good college'. I had wonderfully high standardized test scores, IQ scores and a pretty run of the mill GPA. I can't imagine where I would have ended up if I had stayed in HS and ended up going to one of the 'large lecture hall' driven Universities that were in my future. All that said, yes, a large portion of life is memorization... but if you are memorizing so you can put it to use solving problems, it becomes fun. if you are memorizing just so you can pass a test, it isn't quite so much fun... plus once the tests are over, reference books exist.