Graduating one year early from high school, any anecdotes?
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| What about a postgraduate year at a boarding school? |
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| I did. Applied and got into an Ivy junior of HS and then deferred and took a year a to spend time with family in our home country. I took college level english, calculus and chemistry instead of taking them as APs. |
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| Bumping for more anecdotes... |
Anonymous
| I went to college at 16 30 years ago - immigrated from a country with a much stronger school curriculum and was bored to tears in high school. Went to a SLAC then a T14 law school. No issues whatsoever. But I think it really depends on the kid and their personality. |
Anonymous
| I knew two when I was in college decades ago. A girl who went crazy with partying and became very promiscuous, but did ok academically, and a boy who was socially inept and struggled academically. I would consider them both cautionary examples. |
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Same here went early. HS was/is a waste of time; you hang around some really sinister people and socially stigmatized if you don't do the "cool" things. Go to the college you feel at home and you enjoy life. Get up at: 10am do like 2 classes that day vs 6am and out by 2pm. Is anyone comparing HS life to college freedom? If you like that go back to Kindergarten do some naps. |
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Thank you to the above.
Can any of you speak about the admissions results for junior applicants/early high school grads? |
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I’m struggling to understand the question here. Anecdotal evidence seems uneven and unhelpful if you are interested in broad trends.
If you discover the answer is “some colleges will want to see four year of HS” will you change your approach? I’m sure some colleges will prefer four years and some won’t care. Is it ok to limit your options to school that don’t care? And is it ok to possibly weaken your chances at admission? If yes, then by all means you should proceed, but I sense this is one area where you can’t have your cake and eat it too (graduate early and have only positive or neutral impact on admissions). If you feel flexible about which colleges you pursue and want to end HS early and you believe there aren’t likely to be negative developmental consequences; I say go for it. If you have specific schools you are interested in please identify them. Otherwise I think the answer is “some will not view this favorably, others won’t care” but you likely already know that. I doubt anyone is going to be able to precisely quantify that impact. |
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Because this is a rare situation triggered by disparate circumstances, such as a mental health crisis or being a prodigy, the outcomes will be all over the place. But as I said I know a kid who did this and went to U Kansas. |
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There is no data, presumably because few high school students choose to graduate early. While many competitive high schools students might satisfy grad requirements before senior year, there may be a sticking point with satisfying English credits in particular, though I'm not really sure. I just want to hear where junior applicants/early high school grads with high stats have been accepted/denied. You are right that we are aware that it might be viewed unfavorably by some and others might not care... just wondering what those schools might be. For example, do large publics care less than privates? At what level of selectivity is this less of an issue? I have no idea. Ultimately, kid's list will be kid's list. I'm just looking for anecdotes because there is no data. |
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My son will graduate in december of his senior year and start college in january due to football (he's a 4 star recruit), and it will be super beneficial for him to have a full semester of college under his belt before football season starts. He's an august baby that we "held" before kinder so he's the oldest in his class and more mature, I think that makes me feel more comfortable with it.
I think if you have a mature kid I see nothing wrong with it! |
Anonymous
| As a college professor the freshmen I have are already immature, needy, and fragile enough. Please, please, please don't send them any sooner. I won't be impressed: I'll be worried and potentially frustrated, especially if I start hearing from the parents. (Remember that your student is considered an adult under FERPA when they start college, even if they are not yet 18.) |
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| Sorry to bump an older thread, but I the same question as OP. Also looking to hear about high stats applicants who graduated feom high school after 3 years, just one year early, and what their admission results looked like. 4.0 uw, 1570, 13 APs. |
Anonymous
| Why purposely set your kid up to be an outsider? My apologies but it seems like bad parenting. Surely DC can find some venture worth his time for his last year of high school, and mature. Special snowflake is not a good look. |
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Colleges don't care if you graduate HS early. They compare your record to the other seniors. In the DMV, your kid is probably not very competitive with the top seniors at the same school / city applying to the same colleges. But you should start a new thread because everyone's going to see the OP and reply to that. |