How will graduating HS early impact my admissions?

Applying to College
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Hello, I’m going to be an early graduate (by one year) and graduate along with the class of 2020, applying for college in this upcoming admissions season. I’m wondering if anybody has gone through this process as an early graduate and how it turned out for them. I guess in essence this is somewhat of a chanceme as well.

Some stats + ECs + some of the colleges I’m applying to for reference:
35 ACT
4.71 Academic GPA
4 Mock Trial awards (ranging from state–>national level)
A bit of Korean language tutoring
Camp counselor/summer TA at a tech camp w/ international students

Schools (applying for polisci):
UCLA
UCI
USC
Northwestern
Columbia
NYU

Based on all of this, will my decision to graduate early negatively impact admissions in any way? Does anybody have any tips for managing the admissions season as an early grad?

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What’s your UC GPA?

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I believe somewhere around 4.6

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The UC’s calculate 3 GPA’s: Unweighted, Capped Weighted and Fully Weighted. Here is the calculator: https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/

Have you completed all the a-g course requirements and beyond?
How is your HS course rigor? Any SAT subject test scores?

Hopefully you have at least one safety school on your list, since none of the schools you have listed can be considered Safety schools.

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It’s pretty impossible to get a UC gpa higher than 4.3 while taking a normal courseload. Gumbymom gave you a good resource with the Rogerhub calculator.

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By the time I graduate, all a-g course requirements will have been completed. I don’t have any SAT subject tests, but I do have many AP Test scores instead, and I’m currently taking the most advanced classes at my HS.

When it comes to safety schools, I’ve added CSULB and SDSU.

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Are you in California? If so, I think there is two paths to guaranteed UC admission. Other’s will hopefully correct me if I’m wrong. There is a statewide path: http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/california-residents/admissions-index/index.html has a calculator to help you find out if you are in the top 9% if state students. This is information on the Eligibility in Local Context, for students in the top 9% of their high school graduating class. You’re not guaranteed admission to UCLA or UCI, but if you meet the criteria, and those schools do not admit you, another UC should admit you. That may be helpful, unless you have other reasons for wanting to attend CSULB or SDSU.

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Maximum capped weighted UC GPA is 4.4. Uncapped weighted could be as high is 5.0. The ELC default campus is UC Merced so CSULB and SDSU might be more desirable.

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Graduating early shouldn’t really affect your chances, as long as you’ve taken a good course load while in high school. I had two friends graduate early this past June. One of them got into a selective art school, the other got into a fairly selective engineering program at a public university.