By my sophomore year, I would have exhausted my high school curriculum in math. By my junior year, I will have exhausted all the core subjects (social studies, science, math, foreign language, etc.) except for classes like criminal justice, health, designing, etc… My HS offers dual enrollment, but the dual enrollment program is not very good here. The community college offers various classes like (law, astrology etc.), but not very good core subject classes. Would my admission’s process go more smoothly if I did the dual enrollment? If I were to do a dual enrollment program, I would not be able to take leadership positions at school. If I were to do an early graduation, I would be considered a senior in my third year at my school, so I would have opportunities to take part in bigger things.
(I am aiming for a top university)
Why wouldn’t you be able to take leadership positions at your school if you did dual-enrollment? Even if you couldn’t take official leadership positions in your extra curriculars, there are other ways to take initiative such as being on a fundraising committee. What does it mean to have “opportunities to take part in bigger things” as a third year senior?
Are your SAT or ACT scores already where you want them to be?
If you choose to graduate early, you’re going to miss out on a whole year of chances to show involvement extracurricular activities and receiving any awards in your school or community that could add to your application. You would also be missing a whole summer to volunteer or work or do an internship.
If you truly feel that the dual-enrollment is not worth your time and your application would not be strengthened by a fourth year of high school, then go for early graduation.
I wouldd not be able to take part in school actuvities if I did a dual enrollment vbecause for my region at least you don’t attend high school at all.
Meaning DE is just going to the college? Of course, there are college based ECs.
The college does not have college soph level courses in subjects where you will exhaust the most advanced high school courses? What about academic subjects not commonly offered in high school like philosophy, sociology, economics, geology, history other than US/Europe/world, political science other than US, etc.?
If the offerings are so poor that there is nothing academically suitable left to take, the argument for early graduation is stronger.
Sounds like your high school is pretty low level. How is it possible to exhaust the curriculum so early? What is their highest level math? How does the school justify such a low level curriculum?
The highest level of math is AP stats and calculus ab/bc.
I have heard that Ivys’ don’t accept DEs. Is that true?
As a DE student in high school, I strongly support DE but a fair warning: you have to make sure you do well in them as the grades you get will remain with you for the rest of your life, including most grad schools, etc.
Also, its a experience that you could potentially talk about in applications/interviews/essays. But only do DE if you really want to and you have a general plan of what kind of classes you want to take.
How much would dual enrollment cost? (In my state it’s free, but it might not be worth it if it isn’t.)
When I was a dual-enrollment student, I wasn’t officially allowed to join college clubs, although I joined one anyway and they didn’t seem to mind. Some schools might enforce this policy more than others, especially if they have a large dual-enrollment population.
I became a senior (by credit hours) at the end of my freshman year in college, but it doesn’t give me any privileges other than professors thinking I’m actually a senior when I enroll in their classes. 
to be honest, DE (in my region) is typically comprised of students who do not have a plan for the future,. This community college’s acceptance rate is literally 100%.
Also, I would not have the transportation to commute to the college.
Does the college offer multivariable calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, and discrete math?
You have to check each school’s web site on transfer credit policies.
Obviously, that is a problem if you cannot attend the college and have exhausted your high school’s offerings. That makes the argument for early graduation stronger.
Community colleges are generally open admission schools which admit 100% of applicants. Does this community college have a significant population of students preparing to transfer to four year schools, and does it offer the frosh/soph level college courses to prepare those students to transfer to four year schools in a wide range of majors?
The OP may be an outlier in terms of being advanced in most subjects, while most of the student population at the school is considerably less advanced. The school may not have the resources to offer sufficiently advanced courses to very small numbers of students like the OP. (Also, the level is not that low, if the school offers calculus BC. Low level high schools may not even offer calculus at all, and have lower level math courses insufficient to prepare students for calculus.)
My parents are leaning to letting towards early graduation, because dual enrollment may be a problem. However, I am afraid that I will screw up in college. Especially since I’m reaching for a top university.
- Why will you have exhausted your high school's offerings so early?
- Are there any universities near where you live? Would it be possible to take classes there instead? My high school only advertised the possibility of dual enrollment at a community college, since no one had ever done anything else, but I was able to take classes at a university in exactly the same way.