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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was in a school system like this with a December birthday. It was TERRIBLE always being the youngest. To compound matters, I was advanced and ended up skipping a grade. I graduated at 16. No 16-year-old should be allowed to go to college. [/quote]

I disagree.  I skipped a grade and so did my sister.  I turned 17 at the beginning of my freshman year.  We were both fine in college socially and did very well academically.  It depends on the kid.  I was never overtly aware of an age difference between me and my peers throughout school, and I never felt they were either.  I could see it being an issue with a bigger gap...like a prodigy 13 year old going to college.  [/quote]

It depends on your situation. Long story short: I took college classes at 14 and I was out of high school at 16. My mom was on her way to being "done" when I was 4 and she got to claim having such an advanced child. Graduated at 16 and she was completely done. I was paying my own rent and bills by 17. It took me another 2 years to figure out how to become financially emancipated and take out my own school loans to go to college full time. By that point I had two years of work experience, had traveled a bit around the country and Europe, and was finally mature enough to go to college for year. When I started at 19 I was only a little bit older than the other freshmen. But dear God, the stress of being a teenager who is expected to behave like an adult is what was terrible. I didn't figure out the life-long implications of the long term stress until I was much older. [/quote]

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