<p>I am currently a senior in high school and 13 years old. How will my age effect my admission chances?</p>
<p>P.S.
I'm not a troll.</p>
<p>Some colleges will welcome you, some will cast a skeptical eye at admitting someone so young. My alma mater has an unwritten rule to not admit anyone who does not turn at least 17 during his/her freshman year.</p>
<p>That being said, have a look here: <a href=“https://simons-rock.edu/[/url]”>https://simons-rock.edu/</a></p>
<p>I’ve seen a few links on people being 12 and in college. Your age is certainly abnormal, but it might be a good thing- quite interesting. Not quite sure how admissions officers would take that-bad because your “too immature” or its “cool and interesting”. Skipping several grades is definitely more noticeable than one or two, which isn’t very common in the first place. Here are some links for you, but I don’t have much experience with this. It has happened before:
[11-Year-Old</a> Boy Attends Texas Christian University | NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth](<a href=“11-Year-Old Boy Attends Texas Christian University – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth”>11-Year-Old Boy Attends Texas Christian University – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)
<a href=“12-Year-Old Youngest Student of Calif. College - ABC News”>http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95578</a>
<a href=“http://hellobeautiful.com/2013/04/25/15-year-old-black-girl-goes-to-harvard/[/url]”>http://hellobeautiful.com/2013/04/25/15-year-old-black-girl-goes-to-harvard/</a>
But, they don’t always put out the reasons for rejecting people, and ugly truth: They might not enjoy it.
Not quite sure if you want to say you are 13 on your application, or just leave it at your birth date and they won’t notice until interviews (how much weight do interviews play?) Decide based on if the age may be an advantage or disadvantage- more informed people will post soon. :)</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>At least one student started attending a local community college at age 8, transferring to a local state university at age 12. The university did let him live with his parents in housing normally offered to graduate students.</p>
<p>[At</a> just 14, UCLA math student Moshe Kai Cavalin has written his first book, ‘We Can Do’ / UCLA Newsroom](<a href=“http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/at-just-14-ucla-math-student-moshe-229359.aspx]At”>Newsroom | UCLA)</p>
<p>I second the suggestion to look at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. A former colleague of mine attended as a teenager, and then transferred to Mt. Holyoke. It was a great experience for her.</p>
<p>The great difficulty with much younger college applicants is social. Who are you going to live with, and who are you going to hang with? </p>
<p>It’s really not developmentally appropriate–or probably good for anybody–to have a 14-year-old living in a group of college-age freshmen. Simon’s Rock helps minimize those difficulties. There’s still a pretty wide range of ages, I gather, but there are more students in their younger teens, and Simon’s Rock has more and longer experience dealing with these residential life issues than any other college I know of.</p>
<p>Would you be living with your parents?
Most colleges would not let you live in the residence with 18 year olds (nor should you want to, really, as it’s not developmentally appropriate for a 13 year old).
So, academically colleges may readily admit you, but they will have questions for you socially. Be proactive about it: let the admission officers know about it <em>and what your family’s going to do about it</em> = move in with you near campus/in an on-campus apt if available, or drive you to class if the college is within driving range; whether you’ll still be involved in clubs and other activities beside going to class on campus, etc.</p>
<p>Thank you to everybody your responses were very helpful.</p>
<p>Like others, I think enrolling at this young an age would probably limit you to classes and activities only. You truly could not participate in dorm life at your age, for legal and liability reasons. Definitely not age appropriate.</p>
<p>It could be right for the type of (very extraordinary) person that you are; it could also be a big potential misstep. I hope you have parents and a school guidance support system which are incredibly plugged into your situation. If what you are saying about yourself is true, your mind is an extremely valuable commodity (you are the type of person who could change our world) - however, you’re still a 13 year old human being, and your advanced mind has no impact on your need for regular, safe and consistent development in all other areas.</p>
<p>I think your parents and GC need to be right up front with admissions at any college you’re considering and make your age an issue right up front. No point in wasting your time with schools that won’t be able to accomodate you, and I can’t imagine that your application would follow the normal process anyway. </p>
<p>If you really are a senior right now, it’s probably a little late to be starting on this.</p>
<p>Given the issues with dorm life or otherwise living away from your parents that colleges are likely to hesitate on, you may want to consider colleges that you can commute to from your parents’ or other adult relatives’ place, or that your parents or other adult relatives are willing to move to within commuting range (or into family or non-traditional student housing if offered by the college).</p>
<p>In this case, “commuting range” would likely be similar to what a typical high school frosh can be expected to handle, since you will be that age as a college frosh.</p>