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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone done this? Considering this?

My kid is so bored in high school, and now that most colleges are online, I figure she could go to college for a year online, possibly starting in January (why not?).

My kid is too young to leave home, but her brain is ready for college. She went to CTY summer camp for three summers and was extremely happy taking college level classes there. 
She's so miserable with online high school classes, which are mostly busy work, no substance.

She took community college classes this summer when her job was cancelled, but the classes were too easy for her.

Is this a crazy idea? What colleges might we look at? She took her SATs in 8th grade and did well enough to get into a top-tier college.

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So you want to ruin your child's high school experience and ruin her college experience too?  She is likely too young to compete (even if very smart) with other students who will be many years older.  She will also limit her time spent on campus developing relationships with professors/mentors and other kids.  Having taught high school for more than ten years, there are very few kids, even if very smart, that can't use more time to develop and polish writing and analytical skills.  In addition, no top-tier college will take your child off-cycle to begin in January.

If you must pursue this for some reason, declare yourself a homeschooler, and then issue her a diploma and transcript.  Note that you must be able to show that she has achieved the necessary number of classes to represent a high school education.

Instead, I would declare my child a homeschooler, which still allows her to take a couple of college classes, but pursue an internship or very specialized study of a topic that is interesting to her, and continue to have her be a high school student.  This will help you with college admissions (just don't take too many college credits or you will lose access to freshman scholarships, etc. and she will be considered a transfer admit.)[/quote]

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