<p>why the rush?
as people have arleady said..college is largely about the social experience..hoiw are you as a 14 year old gonna feel interacting with 18 year olds? will you have similar interests? more importantly, how will 18 year olds feel being friends with you? thats just like saying..do you enjoy hanging out with 10 year olds?</p>
<p>you get to be young once, the working world isn’t as exciting as you currently think. enjoy childhood while it lasts</p>
<p>I would recommend waiting, but not till you are 18. That would be 4 more years, and I think you would completely outpace the structure of your high school. I would think that 2 years of a mix of high school, homeschooling, and dual enrollment would be ideal. You would be the same age as many peers who did skip one grade, and within a few months of the younger freshmen woh didn’t skip grades. You would also have the opportunity to get used to a more college like, independent atmosphere. And your resume can only get stronger, so that would also help when looking at schools.</p>
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<p>laugh out loud. We have a math genius on our hands people.</p>
<p>You could live in a dorm in the United States by applying for a post-graduate year (like the grade 13 that some provinces have in Canada) at a boarding prep school.</p>
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Just by saying that means that you are immature. Mature people won’t go around saying that they’re mature.</p>
<p>I’m sensing this is a ■■■■■.</p>
<p>yeah, I wouldn’t go to college at 14…You’ll be visibly younger than the rest of the students, and even a mature 14-year-old is not going to be mature as the average 18-year-old at a top school. You won’t really date, because you won’t stop being “jail bait” until after you graduate! </p>
<p>I don’t know of any really young kids getting admitted to Yale…the youngest person I know turned 18 near the end of freshman year. There might be an odd person or two who starts at 16, but even that’s really awkward. I know, as a person who occasionally throws parties/holds social events, that I would be reluctant to invite someone a lot younger to come, because it could create a very uncomfortable/possibly illegal situation! </p>
<p>Seriously, social life is very important in college…if I were you I’d wait until you’re 16 or 17 to go, when the age difference won’t be as noticeable. There are some kids here who could’ve finished high school early but chose to take college classes/be homeschooled instead, so that they would enter college at a “normal” age…then they accelerated through college and took more advanced courses there!</p>
<p>Sixteen-year-olds enroll at all of the most selective colleges routinely every year. Someone considering applying at age fourteen would enroll at age fifteen, most likely, if admitted at all. That would be a bit unusual–and not what I recommend–but it is possible and works well for some students at some colleges. </p>
<p>See </p>
<p>[MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: “Doogie Howser, et al.”](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/homeschooled_applicants_helpful_tips/doogie_howser_et_al.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/homeschooled_applicants_helpful_tips/doogie_howser_et_al.shtml) </p>
<p>for the thoughts of an MIT admission blogger on this subject.</p>
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If so, apply. If you don’t get in, continue with school. Re-apply next year. Listen to your parents/family friends/consultants/etc. Visit universities and talk to them.</p>