The phrase "almost dropped out" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone nearly left a program, school, or activity but ultimately decided to stay.
Example: "During my first semester, I struggled so much that I almost dropped out of college."
Alternatives: "nearly quit" or "almost left".
"I literally almost dropped out every year of high school".
Failed math, almost dropped out, became a history major, graduated with honors.
Rourke almost dropped out due to Marvel's initial salary offer of $250,000, but the studio raised the offer, and in March Rourke signed on.
I almost quit grad school: I was going to NYU Tish and I almost dropped out because I tried to work how other people were working.
Rubio began more than thirty points behind, and almost dropped out.
Ainsworth, the Wycombe manager, recalled his second season in charge when the club almost dropped out of the Football League.
It's a place in which one character, perpetually "stranded by her despair" and "so lonely on Earth she could die," can fantasize almost wishfully about dropping out of a skyscraper's window to ease that pain.
Of the 620 adults who initially enrolled in the trial, 208 of whom regularly used heroin as well as cocaine, almost half dropped out before the study's completion, as is common in studies of addiction treatment.
Three of them dropped out almost immediately.
She was a member of the first class of 116 female recruits, almost all of whom dropped out, including a large contingent who left the day after being berated by an instructor who disparaged the notion of women in the state police force.
Up until December, a few months before Carson dropped out, almost 75percentt of his donations came from people who hadn't donated to other federal candidates since at least 2007, according to our data analyzed by the Center for Public Integrity.
