<p>graduated early & sat on your butt for a year.</p>
<p>not really. you can graduate early and do something productive and they'll love it. people do this when they get accepted to colleges anyway, deferring for a year...go to brazil and volunteer at an orphange. then it'll be worthwhile. :)</p>
<p>I say, stop focusing on med school so much because you have to do 4 years undergrad first... Look for a great undergrad program (and if you really want to, look for combined undergrad/med programs). Don't base your high school decisions on what you'll be doing after undergrad.</p>
<p>Besides, some recent med school graduates I know say that accelerated med programs aren't all they're cracked up to be, and the younger people in med school don't get as much respect because of their age.</p>
<p>"Well, if I graduate early, I get to go to college earlier, and become a doctor quicker.."</p>
<p>that is a dangerous mindset.</p>
<p>listen to us when we say enjoy your senior year.
do new stuff if you're so bored already.</p>
<p>i don't think graduating early is a good idea. whether you know it or not, you goal of becoming a doctor is STILL going to change. so if the reason you're doing this is because you want to get in and get out of med school early, then you're wasting one of the most precious years of your life. graduating early is not exactly honored in the real world, unless you did with high honors. enjoy senior year, have fun, get the necessary credits and bag that valedictorian spot is my advice.</p>
<p>I'm not saying that you aren't capable of becoming a doctor, but a lot of people who intend to become doctors either change their minds or are weeded out through the really hard classes (I think organic chem is one of them?). You should just enjoy your senior year, do things that you haven't always had the time for, graduate as val or top 5, and apply early or normal to a good college.</p>
<p>learn to spell buddy. principal not principle. </p>
<p>"Colleges deadline to apply is OVER!"
-that's what you get for trying to graduate early. HAHA</p>
<p>I would graduate normally. Take more hard classes, learn more, spend your time better... you can actually spend time and more effort on your applications. In my opinion you'd be able to get into a better college that way.</p>