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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rather than focus on her taking college classes spring of her junior year, focus on taking all the classes she needs to graduate early, and then apply to college in spring for fall admittance (during what would’ve been her senior year.) Otherwise, just let her take the core high school credits and let the classes be easy, and supplement with other high interest courses from elsewhere. Don’t just randomly pursue “harder” classes right now. You need a concrete plan for HS graduation and college intention.

Have you discussed it with her HS counselor?[/quote]

But does the DD herself want to graduate early? Not clear what she wants versus what parent wants. If the girl is on board with accelerating things, that's fine, but I'm wondering how much of this the parent is driving and how much is the DD herself.

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Hi, OP here. My DD is bored, and yes, she'd like to take college courses. She loved CTY, which is taught at the college level with kids her own age. She hates high school, which she finds excruciatingly stupid and boring. She's not mature enough to go to college, but intellectually, she can manage college courses. She's taking 7 AP classes this year. She took 2 last year and got 5s on both tests. Her high school piles on the work in AP classes, but it's not interesting work. My older kid had the same issue at the same high school. Once my older DD got to college, she was really happy with the academics, which she loves. That's why I was hoping I could sign up DD for college courses, since most are online. She wants to go to HYPS, by the way, but I don't imagine those schools will allow her to take courses online, so I'm trying to figure out if there's are any reasonably challenging colleges that will allow her to take one or two interesting college classes online. 
I have have gotten bureaucratic responses from a couple admissions offices I called, e.g. kid needs high school diploma or to have finished all requirements before enrolling online. DD has neither. [/quote]

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