<p>chances for an early grad Wellesley, Smith, Scripps, Pitzer, St. Johns College</p>
<p>Ill be graduating in 2005 as a junior. Please slap me upside the head if yall think I should stay another year and improve or just go for college. All possibilities for staying in high school have been exhausted (So I still have AP physics and Calc III to take but I can take those at college) Thanks everyone </p>
<p>GPA: 3.9 uw 4.6-ish w
Rank in top 5%
SAT: 1400 (660 M 740 V)
SAT II: Chem 760, Math IIC 700 (will retake in January)</p>
<p>Classes (honors/ap only)
Freshman: UniMath 2 (equivalent of Algebra 2), Honors Chemistry
Sophomore: AP Chem, AP US history, Precalc, IB Spanish 4
Junior: AP Calc BC, AP Spanish, IB English 11, AP Biology, AP Euro History and psychology 101 at community college (2nd semester)</p>
<p>5s on AP Chem and US history</p>
<p>ECs</p>
<p>School Newspaper news editor (10 hr/wk) (at school paper 2 yr)
Future Community leaders of America co-president (4) (3 yrs) (100 plus hours of community service over 2 years)
Founder of Literary Club/ Editor of lit magazine (4) (1st year)
Choir (5 hr/week) (2 yr)
Track (8 hr/week) (3 yr)
Science Bowl 2nd team 10th grade (4 hr/week) (2 yr)
Member of Amnesty International (3 hr/week) (1 yr)
Counsel of Clubs (1st year in session) (2 hr/week)
Summer program junior year on biochemistry research (6 weeks)
Volunteer at museums about 100+ hrs</p>
<p>Awards
Lettered in Choir 2 years
Lettered in Academics sophomore year (1st year to have academic letter at school)
Athletic Award 2 yr
5th place regionals for science bowl sophomore year
2nd place in-school Spanish poetry contest (not too big I know)
Spanish Honor Society
National Honor Society</p>
<p><em>this thread can also be found in "what are my chances" section</em></p>
<p>For what it's worth, my d. entered Smith at the beginning of what would have been her junior year (but she was a homeschooler.) And she's loving every minute of it.</p>
<p>As a current senior, I would offer a different perspective. Of course I don't know you specific situation or anything at all for that matter, but this is just my opinion. Senior year is amazing. Classes-wise it's great, but there is so much other stuff. It's about letting go and holding on at the same time, saying goodbye to your friends, but making sure that they stay a part of you forever. I know I've grown up so much in just the past three months, that I think I would have been at a serious disadvantage being a freshman in college this year. Of course there's the fun senior stuff too, but really I think it's an important year to figure out who you are, and to grow before college next year. Props to you for being ready to graduate a year early, I would just urge you to think about what you might miss. Why be in such a hurry to grow up? If you've exhausted the curriculum, take some classes at a local college, that would be cool and fun and even more impressive on your college application.</p>
<p>Pax vobiscum, Mini, but for reasons of emotional maturity I ordinarily tend to favor students either doing their fourth year of hs or substituting some sort of gap year. I'd say that 3/4 of the people I've known of who went directly to college "young" would have been better off being a year older when they did so.</p>
<p>I actually agree, and would have been THRILLED if my d. took a gap year, but she had been waiting to do so serious composition work for 4 years, and had already been attending college for three years, so it just wasn't to be.</p>
<p>Would she have been "better off"? Well, we'll never know, we'll we?</p>