I recommend trusting your gut.
To avoid or reduce or shorten arguments with your parents, perhaps shift the focus to what you are interested in doing. 'I'm thinking about community college, then four-year college.'
Please make a reasonable effort these last couple of months, take some reasonable chances, and you might pass. As a fallback position, are you good at standardized tests and is the GED a possibility?
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And straight up, please give yourself the gift of considering medical school. Yes, really! For example, I could easily say, 'Okay, take this [Tamiflu]. Now, if you start to have trouble breathing, please come back and see me right away.' That's how you treat a patient with flu. Piece of cake, right? Flu is usually no big deal, but occasionally, occasionally it can lead to pneumonia. So just tell this to the patient.
Yes, you can do community college and then transfer to a four-year college. And any professional program, medicine, law, engineering, architecture, your high school grades hardly matter at all. It is your most recent grades in your last level of education.
Working at H&R Block was perhaps my most recent experience that helped me further develop appreciation of people. Now, it's an unethical company in that they don't really disclose the negatives of their financial products. But me working there, it was less unethical because I did disclose! The job also taught me to focus on the essentials, streamline, be open to real conversation that ping pongs back and forth.
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt114422.html
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt147123.html
(Here are some of the other negatives. Realistically, a new person won't get the bonus and his or her job will last about four weeks. But it is real face-to-face interaction with a client. And if you don't inform the client that it is a loan application and that there is a risk of "cross-collection," he or she won't know. And if you don't do Earned Income Credit right or the new credit for homebuyers, it won't get done right. The job matters to real people.)
Other good experiences of mine are legitimate sales jobs and political activism.
Good luck.
You're seventeen. There will be future upswings in the economy.
Note: NOT A DOCTOR. Am interested in medical journalism. 