<p>Help! I am thinking of waiving my senior year as I am running out of classes to take next year. I know that Columbia and Barnard both offer Early Admission.
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<p>What other colleges also offer Early Admission?</p>
<p>USC.
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<p>A LOT of colleges offer early admission, both Early decision and early action. All Ivy leagues have it and basically all top tier schools.</p>
<p>I’m talking about waiving senior year and graduating from high school early, not early decision and early action. That’s something completely different.</p>
<p>What about Harvard, Yale, and Princeton? Do they offer early admission?</p>
<p>If you can graduate from your HS in 3 years, you can apply anywhere you want. This is a better route.
If you don’t graduate (will not have HS diploma), there are many colleges that might accept you, but your options will be more limited. </p>
<p>In any case, graduating early is a disadvantage, as far as college admissions go, even though it is the right choice for some students. (Running out of classes in HS is one of the better reasons to graduate early ;)…)</p>
<p>If it helps, I’m not actually looking to graduate early, just waive my senior year.</p>
<p>Most private schools do - some explicitly, some not.</p>
<p>Explicitly:
Oberlin
Georgia Tech
Grinnell
Pomona
Caltech</p>
<p>The only difference I noticed between Early Admission and Regular Admission was that many of these schools require an interview for Early Admission applicants, in order to gauge if you are mature enough for a college environment.</p>
<p>It might be harder to get into a public university without a high school diploma.</p>
<p>EDIT: As to schools that offer this option without explicitly stating it, I know of one girl on CC who was accepted to MIT after her junior year.</p>
<p>What do you mean “wave your senior year”? Some students can fulfill their HS graduation requirements, and graduate after junior year. Another option is to “drop out” of HS (Without graduating), and go to college without having HS diploma. Some very top schools (like MIT) will take exceptional students without HS diploma, others will not. Your options will be much more limited if you choose to “drop out” instead of graduating early.</p>
<p>Caltech and MIT both regularly accept students early and I don’t believe require a high school diploma. I know someone who went to Brown early, but it was years ago. I know of at least two people who started Harvard early.</p>
<p>Does Harvard require a high school diploma? I am looking for schools that don’t require the high school diploma. I will be awarded a high school diploma after I have successfully completed my first year of college.</p>
<p>On Harvard’s page on the College Board website, it says that “High school diploma or equivalent is not required.”</p>
<p>Thanks! :)</p>
<p>No problem. However, I would recommend you contact each school that you are planning on applying to and ask if there are any additional requirements for you.</p>
<p>The only students I know who have been able to do this successfully, without completing their high school graduation requirements, have been exceptional students. Your best bet is to talk to your college counsellor at your high school once school starts again to see what your options would be.</p>
<p>Are you about to enter your senior year of high school or junior year? </p>
<p>If you’re entering your junior year, go to the GC before school begins, and see if your district will let you “skip llth grade.” Then you’ll be a senior in your final year of h.s.</p>
<p>If youi’re entering your senior year, you might do better to take many interesting h.s. electives, do a project in your community, and write fantastic applications and visit colleges this coming autumn.</p>
<p>Sounds like you wanna get outathere, and I can understand that feeling, too. Try to think long-term. Running out of courses in high school doesn’t mean you have to scoot off to college before you know which one would best serve you.</p>
<p>Your options will be far greater if you graduate high school in three years with a diploma than getting no diploma. </p>
<p>I have a child who graduated high school early (you could say after her junior year though the decision was made in tenth grade and so her junior year was also called her senior year…basically she graduated in three years and earned a diploma). Before we allowed her to go this route (this was during tenth grade), we called up the colleges on her list and asked if they would admit early graduates and all said that they would IF the student had a high school diploma and they did not care how many years they went to high school if they had the diploma. That said, even as an EARLY GRADUATE, it is harder to get into college and colleges will scrutinize your application even more than a regular applicant to determine if they believe you are ready and appropriate to enter their college. My daughter included a statement with every application with her rationale for her early graduation from high school and her recs also spoke to this (including the guidance counselor who highly supported this decision). </p>
<p>Now, some schools will accept a student early without a high school diploma but there are far fewer of these and so what you need to do is to inquire directly at each college that interests you about their policy. I suggest such inquiries as soon as possible before making your decision about your high school plans. </p>
<p>Also, there are various solutions to running out of high school courses. While this was true for my D who graduated early too, it was not her ONLY reason for leaving high school early and going off to college early. My other D also was running out of courses but did not graduate early but rather found other solutions to that particular dilemma such as independent studies and long distance courses and so on to supplement the few courses she had left to take at our high school.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon accepts early graduates.</p>
<p>Honestly, I feel kinda bored in high school. The classes are a complete waste of time, the teachers are incompetent, and there just aren’t many opportunities. I took a Calculus class at Lehigh University, in which I received the highest grade, and I am currently working with a biology professor on a project dealing with neuropeptides and brain aging. If I go to a college like Columbia now, I will have many more opportunities to do research than I do now. I am also involved in many school activities (science olympiad, math league, poli sci, model congress, OM, french club, etc.), but they really don’t hold much interest for me. I’m really just trying to get away from my high school and everything about it. Additionally, I want to make new friends and hang out with people with similar interests and ideas.</p>
<p>To those who are not familiar with early admissions, there are quite a few colleges and universities who accept students under early admission plans (this is NOT EA or ED). Some list the programs on their website and in their admissions information and some do not. They accept students after their junior year of high school WITHOUT a high school diploma. These students DO NOT drop out of high school. Usually, these students leave high school and matriculate at said college or U, and the high school will then provide a diploma of successful completion after the student completes the first year of college successfully. Most students who do this have all their HS requirements met EXCEPT for the number of classes/credit hours. The students have the “silly” requirements like PE and health completed. But they just don’t have the number of classes needed to actually graduate early. But they have exhausted the classes available to them. The HS uses the college english or college physics or college math taken that first year in college to fulfill the HS requirements. </p>
<p>These programs are old, in fact. They preceded a lot of the dual enrollment programs out there. I know. I left HS after junior year to begin college at a highly regarded LAC some 30+ years ago. </p>
<p>To the OP, it was the best decision I ever made. If you are a great student, and motivated to start college early, go for it. There will be lots of folks who will try to talk you out of it. They will tell you to enjoy your hs years, that you are in too much of a hurry, that you are too young, etc etc etc. But if you have what it takes, colleges will take you seriously. Different schools may consider you differently for financial aid, so be sure this is taken into consideration. I did not have any problems. I also had no problems applying or being accepted to med school. I think the early admissions approach is much more rewarding than some sort of distance learning, or piecemeal DE classes. And if your are interested in research, nothing beats being on campus a year early to get started</p>
<p>If you do not see info about early admissions at a college or U you are interested in, call and ask. LAC’s will be more likely to be very familiar with this than bigger U’s, who tend to think you are interested in a dual enrollment situation. </p>
<p>Good Luck.</p>
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<p>What you wrote above does not sound very convincing. You may seriously limit your options of getting into top schools by rushing it.</p>
<p>My daughter was in the same situation as soozievt’s D, and I second everything soozievt wrote. If you have one more year in HS, check what you would need to do to graduate early. If you are missing a couple of credits, you can probably have them done on line, etc. If you get HS diploma, you will have many more options.</p>