Recently some adolescents have been discovered as the ‘academic type’ out-of-school youths who have dropped out of high school by themselves in pursuit of university entrance through the GED(general equivalency diploma). These youth deny their high school as a place of education and accept the needs of the university education as another place. To understand the meaning of their choice of academic pursuits outside the school, this study conducted in-depth interviews with 13 research participants, focusing on their perceptions of educational path, their meaning to education, and their interaction with parenting. the differences of their socioeconomic backgrounds were analyzed through difference in parental education. In this analysis, the perception of the educational path, the meaning of education, and the interaction of parenting showed a distinctive pattern according to the socioeconomic background of the participants. The participants in the background of the parents’ college or higher education aimed at selective university admission according to specific career planning and focused living area, while having experienced their parents’ meticulous coordination and permission. On the other hand, participants in the background of the parents’ high schoool or lower education were open to various experiences outside the school and had a loose goal of going to university. They experienced their parents’ ambivalent attitude toward dropouts and nonintervention after dropout. These results suggest the following two. First, there is a need to understand the recent emergence of out-of-school paths in relation to the dominant credentialism culture. Second, the question of who is the beneficiary of these expanding private paths is raised in relation to the socioeconomic gap.