Applying to Colleges As An Upcoming Junior

Hi,
I’m currently a sophomore who is graduating early as a junior. I am also taking additional online classes, and will take the SAT in May, and June, then the ACT in June. At what point in time should I apply to colleges?

Senior year.

According to your previous post, your SAT is not strong. You plan to take online courses which may or may not be a good thing.

Also, applying as a junior means you will be compared to everyone else who does have the requisite scores, required coursework and EC’s.

The competition will be, not only tough, but almost impossible.

Why do you want or need to graduate early? That will determine your options.

Usually the common app opens 8/1. My daughter said the best thing she did was to get as much done over the summer as possible because when Fall rolled around, all the honors college applications started to open so there were even more essays. She applied to 8 schools and wrote 19 essays. It would have been a ton to do it all with a full class load…