<p>I had an acquaintance who would have graduated from high school at 14 or 15, so she transferred to an elite boarding school with advanced classes for a year or two (on scholarship) but still graduated at 16. She then went to Harvard and did extremely well at Harvard. She then applied to the top Ivy law schools and was told that she would be admitted, but in a year or two, because they wanted her to be older and to have more life experiences before she went to law school. She didn't want to wait, so she went to a highly ranked non-Ivy league law school. My point is that maybe it makes sense to take a GAP year now that would look great on his applications but would enable him to be a 16 year old so that his age won't be as much of a factor down the road--something like the elite prep school with advanced courses option (and maybe he could get a scholarship) that someone else suggested or being a Rotary high school exchange student to a foreign country, etc.</p>
<p>A Gap Year (either before [providing an extracirricular punch to the application] or after college acceptance) looks like the way to go; unless the boy can hit the ground running fresh out of high school which BTW is homeschool.</p>