Hey,
Does anyone have any information on the early admissions process, that is, the process for juniors who want to apply to college?
<p>I think you have to have a certain average to be able to to apply EA.
What are your marks like?</p>
<p>For what reason does a junior apply and why would a college hold a space for two years? Lots of stuff happens in two years, look around the boards at seniors all panicy because of midyear reports. With not proof of junior grades, and that all important final marks, and what classes you will take as a senior, I don;t get it. Please explain what the advantage to the college would be.</p>
<p>a friend of mine applied to college as a junior, graduated early, and is spending a year abroad before attending the college. so, apparenlty it worked alright for her. if you're applying as a junior, and not going to be attending the following fall, i'd say you'd have to contact the admissions office for specific information on that. </p>
<p>There's also an early admissions program at several universities, the ones i know of are USC, University of Washington, and purdue has an early admissions option, but i don't think it's all that popular, GA tech also has one... i'm sure there are many others. Early admisisons programs usually refer to programs for students who will skip a year or two of high school (without graduating) and attend the university and earn their diploma or GED while at the university. the notable programs (like the one at USC) usually have high admissions standards, so this option is usually best for ambitious students who are bored at their current high school and have exhausted all opportunities and aren't looking for prep school. </p>
<p>There are the handful of people, like myself, who just graduate early and apply to universities in the same pool as graduating seniors. this option doesn't usually fit many students, to be honest. of the early graduates i've known, they based their decision on non-academic issues. most of them don't end up applying to competitive universities, but i've read posts about some who have and got accepted. in this situation, there aren't any special requirements to my knowlege. you apply as if you were a senior, and i wrote a personal statement explaining that i'm graduating early and gave my reasons. my counselor also wrote a note for me. you'll be considered based on the same criteria as seniors, so if you're applying to a selective school, you better have a really good resume to make up for that missing year.</p>
<p>As mentioned by CK61188, USC has a program for juniors. You were required to have at least a 1400 SAT I (old one) to apply; I'm not sure if this has changed with the new SAT I.</p>
<p>The University of California system has that option for juniors to apply early. UC Riverside has GAP--Guarenteed Admissions Program for qualifying Juniors. </p>
<p>I'm against having juniors apply that early, unless you will no longer find your senior year academically challenging. Such was the case with my friend, where he had taken senior coursework his junior year and his senior year would've been a complete waste of time. He is now finishing his senior year of high school at USC as a freshman and enjoying himself immensely. Only make such a decision if you've exhausted all academic options.</p>
<p>So in essence they are not really juniors....they graduated early....thats different from juniors applying</p>
<p>no, not really. some students graduate early, which is what i did. however, there are early admissions programs where you don't graduate and the university will work with your HS so that you can spend your senior year at the university and start your college career while also earning your diploma. and actually, i applied as a junior. on my transcript and everything, it had "grade: 11". but that's just a technicality.</p>
<p>I am currently a junior who is applying early admission to Emory and Ga Tech. What I am planning on doing is to go ahead and take the one or two classes I still need for graduation over the summer (Eng IV and Earth Sci). This has allowed me to apply as an early graduate to schools that don't have an early admissions program and as a junior skipping senior to those schools that do. </p>
<p>My school is kind of wierd...I have to commute to a seperate facility to take my AP's. It offerers like 20 something, so i havnt exhausted the curriculum in the sense of there are no more courses for me to challege myself with. However, I did take 5 this year (bio, chem, stats, eng, us hist). The other other classes that I think even would interest me would be calc and phys. So I plan on taking AP calc and Phys at CC over the summer. My EC's (ec's...not awards) arent that bad either.</p>
<p>I dont consider myself a competitive student academically...well, at least compared to what i see on this board. Most of the schools that I applied, my 1260 is either below the 25 percentile or right around it. This is because I only applied to schools where I would be 100% happy at. If i dont get in...o well, theres always next year.</p>
<p>Also for those who did already leave hs early, how has it turned out for you? Would anyone stay if they could do it again? Any advice to those considering it</p>
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So in essence they are not really juniors....they graduated early....thats different from juniors applying
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<p>No. My friend at USC does not have his high school diploma. He is coming back to graduate with us in June. He is still in the school computers listed as a senior.</p>
<p>My S is graduating at the end of junior year and has been admitted EA. He has a high SAT score, has already has 4 APs (all 5s) and has taken 9 college courses. He has exhausted all math and science offerings at the high school and is on track to fulfill all high school graduation requirements by June.
Another student graduated as a senior but at a young age; was admitted EA to an Ivy, but is taking a gap year.</p>
<p>That's exactly what early admission for juniors is for; for those students who have exhausted course offerings and have the maturity to handle college life. It is not for juniors who just want to go to college early, thinking they'll have more freedom.</p>
<p>Which school did you S get into, marite?</p>
<p>My friend's daughter got out of 8th grade and just began taking college courses (as a "special student"). She then sat for her GED, and applied to college - she now has a BA, four years before my child who is the same age! She just didn't want to go through four years of high school. Her degree was not from HYSP, though - it was from a second tier, but flagship, state U.</p>
<p>i'm graduating early too. :)</p>
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<blockquote> <p>Which school did you S get into, marite?>> Harvard. So did another early graduate from his school.</p> </blockquote>
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<p>I've gotten into four schools in the UK so far (King's College, Edinburgh, Queen Mary, and Sussex). Still waiting to hear from the American ones.</p>
<p>That's awesome marite.</p>
<p>Morningtheft, Oxford and Cambridge? :) Leeds?</p>
<p>I contemplated the thought of going abroad, but I figured that I would just study abroad for one semester instead.</p>
<p>CK61188 is correct. My son applied as a junior and ended up skipping his senior year altogether. As in Martie's son case, he had exhausted all the math and science courses in his HS. With he exception of JHU, which required a personal interview, the rest of the schools he applied to only required a letter explaining the reasons for the early application. Otherwise he was treated as if he were a senior (we suspect the fact that he was only a junior may have helped distinguish him from the rest of the pool.)</p>
<p>The only thing that may have been different in his case is the fact that he only applied to very competitive schools (reaches.) His "safety" was to go back for his senior year. Had he not been admitted to any school, he would have simply gone back and finish HS (he was only missing an English class.) Doing this required strong support from his guidance counselor.</p>
<p>My D also applied to colleges & graduated after junior year. Actually they designated her a "senior" on her last day of classes. She was an AP National Scholar, I forget how many APs that's for, but it's a lot. On top of this she'd already taken about six actual college courses. So she really needed to be out of HS. I can't imagine what she would have done in HS if she stayed another year.</p>
<p>She has a friend who left early to attend college but did not graduate from high school. She attended one of the schools affiliated with Bard College, either Simon's Rock or some branch that is located in NYC.</p>
<p>Just to clear it up, there are two different things being discussed here. One is often called Early Admission or Early Enrollment which is when a student matriculates at a college following junior year and has not graduated from high school. The other situation being discussed is being an early graduate from high school and matriculating at college after junior year but with a diploma in hand. I have a child applying to college now (like Marite's child) in the latter situation.</p>
<p>In the first situation, there are certain colleges that will admit students following junior year. You would have to contact colleges you are interested in and inquire if they do this. You could also research early enrollment, early admissions, colleges. </p>
<p>But if you are a junior who has earned enough credits to graduate high school and have decided to apply to college for various reasons including academic ones, you can. You are simply an early graduate, earning a diploma in less than four years. Most schools accept such students. I called every school on my child's list a year ago to double check and they all replied that they do take students like that as long as they earned a diploma and they don't care the number of years it took. However, she has included an extra statement with all her applications that has addressed why she has opted to be an early graduate. Her GC also addressed this in his report. Her transcripts show that she is in 11th grade. On her activity resume she also noted that there were no twelfth grade activities listed as she is an early graduate. While she is in the junior class, she is pretty much called a senior now. She is kinda in both 11th and 12th grades. But for many purposes is now in the class of 2005....for things like rank, homeroom, etc. She is not done with the college process yet and has to hear from all of her schools but is already admitted to college. </p>
<p>But for someone trying to apply to college as a junior who will NOT be earning a high school diploma prior to college matriculation, you'd have to only apply to colleges that accept such candidates. There are clearly some who do but not all. In the case of an early graduate, most do accept such candidates. </p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>Soozviet,</p>
<p>Good point. Our son is in the first category. He is a college sophomore but also a HS drop-out. Stanford told him they would not accept his application. The other five (all in the top 20 USWNR) did.</p>
<p>He should be able to get his diploma from the State of NJ based on HSPA resutls and 30 college credits but so far he is too busy to do the paperwork :-(</p>