Hello, so this year I’ve been working toward graduating early. This is my 1st year of highschool, I’m a sophomore. I’m 15 years old and by the end of the summer I’ll have enough credits to be a senior. So, I’d be able yo graduate my 2nd year of highschool. Next year, I’m going to dual enroll, go to a community college and take classes toward my AA while also counting at my HS. So, I’ll complete my undergraduate here at Valencia & UCF. So, I figured since I’m on track, why not graduate? I’ve heard all about the maturity situation and such, I know what I’m getting into. But, what I’m trying to get to is med school. I’m determined to go to med school, my top choice is UCSF. I was wondering if this whole graduating early thing looks impressive? I have a 3.5 GPA and I scored 30th in the state on the PSAT. Thanks!
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If you’re trying to go straight through to medical school, that means you’d be applying after your first year of college. What will you have on your resume that can stand up to kids with 4+ years of post high school work? Who will write your LORs? Additionally, a school like UCSF would prefer a student like you to take more advanced courses in college given your surplus of credits rather than finish early.
Should you decide to go more traditional 4 years of UG, you need to remember that all your DE credits will be on the transcript you send to medical schools. There’s no hiding them if they don’t look great.
Finally, as a Florida resident, you have essentially 0 chance of getting into UCSF. It is an extremely competitive school to begin with and on top of that you have the heavy in state bias.
Now a much better plan to get into UCSF if you really must go through high school and college ASAP is to go through at your pace and then move to California and live/work there for a few years before applying.