<p>I have a kid who entered the RHP program at USC after junior year of high, and it’s been a wonderful experience for him from day 1. That said, he was extremely focused on what he wanted to study in college, had exhausted the resources in his field at his high school, and was certain that USC had one of the best departments in his field in the country. Although he had had an excellent experience in high school and remains close with a number of his high school friends, he had started to pursue the interests he planned to study in college more independently, and he felt done with high school. He wanted to study fewer subjects at a time in more depth and he desperately wanted the resources and breadth of classes and EC activities that USC offers in his major and related fields. He felt ready to be more responsible for himself and to make more of his own decisions. Early college was absolutely the right thing for him academically and socially, and we haven’t had a moment’s regret.</p>
<p>My son graduated a year early and entered college as a 17-year old. He’s now in grad school.
He knew from the beginning of high school that he would want to graduate early because he’d already exhausted the math curriculum before entering. He did not have to present a case to us or to his GC. He spent his high school years taking a lot of college classes. He doubled up on English, was exempted from one year of PE and allowed to graduate early. Because he was accelerated, all his friends were older. His college roommates were also older, but that never seemed to bother him.
There are other CC posters whose sons entered college early: Dmd77, bookworm, to cite just a couple.
Your own son would be the right age for a college freshman, so I doubt that his early graduation would raise a red flag with adcoms. Still, having a gf at university is not a good reason.</p>
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<li>It would be real easy to see if it is the older gf…tell him fine, but the deal is you CANNOT apply to her college. Any other college in the world, but that one.<br></li>
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<p>If there is a fight over it, without logical reasons, then I would say it is the gf, and call it a day in him graduating early.</p>
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<li><p>Does your hs have something akin to JUMP START? This is where they go 1/2 day to hs and 1/2 day to CC. If he feels he truly has learned everything in HS than this could be a good fit for him.</p></li>
<li><p>Is this something more about the empty nest syndrome and not be ready to part with him than him graduating early? If it is you will ruin your relationship because he will resent you. </p></li>
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<p>I know this might sound strange, but does he spend all of his free time with her and never hangs with the guys? Our kids had bfs/gfs, but they also had friend night where the bfs/gfs were not invited and it was just them hanging out. They did this weekly. Maybe, he feels he will be alone with just a lot of acquaintances, and nobody to hang with on the weekends or after school.
, thus he figures it is time to start something new since it would be socially the same.</p>
<p>Personally, our DS was offered to jump grades multiple times and graduate early, we opted not to for various reasons, but one of them was as a boy they typically are less mature and I felt it was just as important to be on the same social level as academic level when you enter college.</p>