I just did it, and so far this is what I've found.You don't get to go to a graduation ceremony (doesn't seem to be working for a lot of people, so probably doesn't even matter). You also don't seem to get a diploma (anyway, I didn't), although you can buy one with hidden objects turned on.I'm not able to join adult careers. This may be a bug related to the the adjoining message you get when you graduate early saying your sim just dropped out of school. But I don't know. With the jobs it says my sim can't get an adult career until he completes his ged online, which I don't have an option to do. So kind of feels like I'm graduated AND a drop out at the same time. He's going to university now and we'll see what that does when he graduates still as a teen, but I don't have high hopes it's going to do anything but still force him to age up to get fulltime work. Because every real job in the game still doesn't have teens as an age that can do it.And speaking of college, even though he's enrolled, he's unable to join any extracurricular activities, like soccer, e-gamer, spirit squad, etc.. Which seems to be because they didn't bother to go in and change the age requirements on them, or give him a pass because he's an early graduate. Could be wrong, but I can't do them and it feels like how they program every cross pack thing, half baked and underwhelming.So, so far, the only advantage I can find for graduating early is to stop going to high school or to shave off a few weeks on aging while in university. Trading that off against a shallow university experience if you normally like to do the extra clubs and such.One odd quirk is that even though my sim is graduated, he still has the option of going to pre-prom and prom every Saturday. Plan on doing that when I get around to it and see how much trouble I can cause as a crasher.

University club activities thing sounds like being teen is the problem. Could be that they wanted to change it and something went wrong so maybe reporting it on Answers HQ bug report could help. But they didn’t program kids to have pillow fight which is weird at best so maybe it was on purpose after all.

"Olalla1986;c-18170334" wrote:University club activities thing sounds like being teen is the problem. Could be that they wanted to change it and something went wrong so maybe reporting it on Answers HQ bug report could help. But they didn’t program kids to have pillow fight which is weird at best so maybe it was on purpose after all.Yes, being a teen is the problem. It would take all of 2 minutes to change the club ones (and probably the e-gamer and soccer), all it needs is to have teen added under ages. So it would be hard to believe they just left it out accidently. My guess is it had to do more with some weird belief that clubs for teens were "inappropriate" or "Unrealistic" or something. But it's possible that no one thought of or spotted it due to lack of play testing.As to the pillow fights, it's like when they added bikes; this pack was aimed at teens, and adding kids would have meant adding another set of animations. Even though they should have; stupid and cheap not to. Maybe even two sets since you'd have to have teens/adults (teens/adults/elders are interchangeable due to height) vs kids, too. And despite the hefty price tag on the pack, they hate doing new animations. Interesting fact; the two college spirit corps are called "Party" and "Prank" in background. Maybe that was all they could come up with, but they might have even been different types of clubs at first.

I see.Graduation Ceremonies aren't supposed to happen to early graduates. In fact, one of the things the game tells you when asking whether you want to graduate early or not is that the graduation ceremony won't happen. These graduation ceremonies only happen on Sundays when the sim ages up to young adult, though going there will age up other teens too (as a rotational player, I hate it).I have a theory why dropping out message also shows. Dropping out is high school equivalent of quitting a career and getting expelled is high school equivalent of getting fired from a career. But you can't "graduate early" from a career. In fact, it removes your sim from the high school. So, the game sees that your sim is removed from the high school and also sees that your sim isn't expelled, thus dropping out message will be shown.That is disappointing. Teens can't join the university activities. And university organizations are excluded too? Come on! Teen werewolves can join werewolf packs!And excluding children are really disappointing. The only new things they can use are the Ferris wheel and the Haunted House (Love Tunnel will show a message that it's not for children). That's it. Rabbit holes! The world even come with new pre-made children! Like come on! Even Discover University had more things children could do (play with the soccer ball)!The different college spirit corps have an interesting code-naming instead. "Party" is for UBrite spirit corp while "Prank" is for Foxbury spirit corp. I don't know why these are named so.Another code-naming fact is that UBrite is known as "Art" and Foxbury is known as "Science". The name reason is simple: the distinguished degrees. This full name comes in handy when you use cheats to make your own professors. In addition, degree traits with "BA" are from UBrite while degree traits with "BS" are from Foxbury. The letters A and S are simple (Art and Science respectively), but I guess the B is for Bachelor.

You're probably right about the dropping out message, but it is bad programming (or lazy at best). Could have put in a separate message if it HAS to kick one out, like "____ is finished with High School" instead of leaving players to wonder if something got borked. And yeah, I knew graduation wasn't going to happen if I graduated early (not a bug, and it makes sense); more of an infomercial to other players considering it. But you really should get a diploma in the mail, and I never did (bugged or not I have no idea).

"ravynwolvf;c-18170476" wrote:You're probably right about the dropping out message, but it is bad programming (or lazy at best). Could have put in a separate message if it HAS to kick one out, like "____ is finished with High School" instead of leaving players to wonder if something got borked. And yeah, I knew graduation wasn't going to happen if I graduated early (not a bug, and it makes sense); more of an infomercial to other players considering it. But you really should get a diploma in the mail, and I never did (bugged or not I have no idea).That is true. In fact, if your sim ages up to young adult, you'll also get a notification that their high school diploma will arrive through mail tomorrow. That message didn't come when my sim graduated early. In fact, my sim didn't receive it too.Well, one theory may be that there isn't a diploma in game for graduating early. We have normal diploma, with honors diploma, and valedictorian diploma, all available in the normal build mode (no diplomas in the debug). Though why not have early graduate diplomas is beyond me...

Pitfalls of early graduation from high school (may be spoilers)

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bandit34
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
yeah, all they had to do was had child sims too the activities at the fair grounds they can drink the new tea just can't order it will see if can add them with sim studio.
CapitanTony
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
So I realize I'm playing the game kind of unconventionally right now, but. So as I posted in the opening, I graduated my teen early. He then went on to Britechester and got a degree. Then I saved him to my library, because I wanted to put him in a fresh world with brand new sims. Well, MOST of it worked okay, except now the game thinks he (the copy in a new world) still is a high school student, even though he has a college degree. So something doesn't save to the library right graduating early. It would be interesting if anyone has a sim who just graduated this way but hasn't gone on to college yet to try and save the sim and put him in a new world and see if it also thinks he/she's still a high schooler.

All I know is my college educated sim isn't keen on going back to high school (insert 80's whacky movie here) but doesn't want to age up for fear of being labelled a drop out. And he still can't get an adult job, either.
GalacticGal
Legend
3 years ago
This is crazy-insane. I deliberately made what I call a Flashback save, since my Global Superstar, Rock Star, has already received his Distinguished Degree in Fine Art(s) from Britechester-U. He's been married to his high school Sweetheart since they graduated and right before they both entered Uni, together. They are now the proud parents of six, count 'em, SIX children. I just thought it would be fun to see him go through HSY. That's what I get for thinking …
Meka3211
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
OP, I totally agree with you. There are definitely pitfalls to graduating early. It's supposed to be this super positive thing, but for all the reasons you listed, it really isn't. My teen had the option to graduate early & I decided to try it, as I wasn't sure what would happen. & now I'm a bit bored to tears as I'm not sure what to do with her, since she can't get a regular adult job yet. I like for my Sims to have things to do like work or school so they're off the lot for a bit....but she's just home all day with her part-time job. Yeah, I find that feature lackluster and the fact that they didn't integrate it with Uni EP....it's all a bit underwhelming
iliekponiez
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
Are teenagers able to graduate from university or do they have to age-up first?
mightyspritesims
Legend
3 years ago
FYI Oliver's diploma from graduating early didn't arrive in the mail, it came straight to the household inventory. Perhaps check there if anyone is missing theirs.

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