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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I started just after turning 17 (July birthday).  Did very well and graduated at 20.  I had been in that grade cohort for most of my school years so it felt normal to me. [/quote]

This, OP.  Your DD will have been with her grade for four years by the time she graduates.  It’s not like she’s skipping Junior and Senior year.  Plus you said you lived abroad for a while - that can have a very maturing effect on children - travel, culture, language.  She isn’t a typical suburban kid.  She could easily be happy and thrive.  [/quote]

I agree with this. Her peers are not determined by numerical age, but by the people she will have been with throughout 4 years of high school.
My kids skipped two grades in elementary school. They feel perfectly comfortable with their fellow seniors in high school. They don't have anything against the sophomores in high school who are their age, but they are academically, emotionally, and socially high school seniors, and we are preparing for them entering college next years exactly as if they were 18.

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