<p>I've heard very good things about the UW Early Entrance Program. OTOH, the few former students I know who tried Running Start found community college courses boring and their peers badly educated. Keep in mind that at a CC, 1/4 of the students are Running Start--and the other 3/4 didn't go to a four-year college.</p>
<p>The big reason for going to college early, IMHO, is that high school has become so boring academically that even a senior year social life doesn't make the place appealing ;-)</p>
<p>When my son applied during his junior year, he was told by both MIT and CalTech that they didn't care if you re-applied senior year if you didn't get in junior year, it had no bearing on the senior year app.</p>
<p>That's very important information for quite a few participants here. Thanks to you and to cujoe for confirming that point. And congratulations to your son.</p>
<p>OK! Sorry to bump this old thread but I've planned my schedule and would love if anybody could comment on it. I have decided I'd like to take Running Start my junior year and hopefully apply to UW at the beginning of my junior year. If I don't get accepted, I will just apply the year after and take more classes my senior year. I took the placement test today and placed into the highest levels of math and english (math 130: calculus I, english 101). However, my counselor has told me I should just take more art and english classes and quit taking math even though I really enjoy the math and science courses. If I follow the schedule I planned below I'd have more then enough credits to graduate, but not many interesting classes left at the community college to take senior year. Just wondering, if this schedule looks to easy, hard, etc.?</p>
<p>Spring
Introduction to Chemistry</p>
<p>Summer
English 101: College Composition
History 121: US History to 1865
Nutrition 110: Human Nutrition</p>
<p>Fall
Math: Calculus and Analytical Geometry I
History 122: US History from 1865<br>
English 102: Writing from Research</p>
<p>Winter
Math: Calculus and Analytical Geometry II
Information Technology 112: Basics of Web Authoring
English 201: Experience of Literature</p>
<p>Spring
Math: Calculus and Analytical Geometry III
Astronomy 101: Survey of Astronomy
English 251: US Literature Survey</p>
<p>School
1 Semester Senior Issues/1 Semester PE
Spanish X103</p>
<p>I think your plan is reasonable, but I'd look carefully at your courses with an eye toward getting all your UW freshman courses and distribution requirements--the big-section courses like chem, physics, English, etc.--out of the way. If you really just want to go to UW, you shouldn't have any trouble getting in, giving that they admit pretty much by the numbers, so you might as well prepare yourself for sophomore standing when you enter, which would allow you to go right to the interesting stuff. I know UW works with the CCs to make sure that those courses are truly compatible with what they're doing.</p>