High school sucked so I quit. There was some kind of testing and paperwork to get into college, but I don't think it was complicated.
My three siblings who graduated from high school did not go on to four year colleges. They went into business.
The two of us who dropped out of high school are University of California graduates.
In our family quiting high school was a prerequisite for college. 
There were a couple of minors in my freshman college class. We all knew one another because we had to attend a special all day Saturday counseling session before the semester started. One of my friends was an emancipated minor. She lived in a broken down motor home parked on a farm.
Of course this was the 'seventies. Times are different. Today we live under a tyranny of regulations that would be impossible to enforce without modern database technology.
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