<p>I don’t think age factors in when a student is admitted into a school. The reason most people in schools are older is because most people decide to attend graduate school when they are older and not because graduate schools don’t accept students who are comparatively younger. Using age as a yardstick for maturity seems really illogical to me because anyone who was motivated to attend and finish school at such a young age is far more mature than someone who spent 6 years of their life picking a major and deciding what they wanted to do after college. </p>
<p>Also most students who finish college don’t do so because they rushed college. Most finished high school early. From experience, everything you were taught in high school could be summarized in a maximum of two years. For example, I finished high school at 15, came to college a year later, and found out that I was going to spend the first two years of college learning essentially the same stuff I learnt in high school (I did not go to school in the United States). So close to two years of my life is going to be spent reiterating stuff I already know. I am not finishing college early- that would mean that I would be done with college at the age of 19, even though I could. But I would done with my degree by the time I am 19 and I would have to spend a year just taking random classes and completing a minor. Well to cut a long story short- some people are hard working enough to finish school earlier. It does not mean they are less mature. graduate schools know this and would therefore not penalise you severely for this. However I believe it is worthwhile to finish all four years of college. Also med school is really hard to get into. Yes, 4.00s get rejected especially when they apply to very competitive schools.</p>