<p>Have you seen this? It was actually a click-through ad here. Students apply to this program in 10th grade and take college classes 11th and 12th grade, while living on campus at this Missouri college. They want out of state kids to apply. Interesting. I see threads periodically about students starting college one year early. This actually lets them start college two years early.</p>
<p>I wasn't sure where to put this so posted it under parents. It isn't prep school and it isn't for juniors and seniors doing college searches.</p>
<p>Are there other programs like this? It's like the "live on campus" version of the programs I am familiar with that let students (living at home and officially enrolled in their current high school) take college/community college classes during high school at the state's expense. (There are good programs like this in Minnesota and Ohio - in Ohio we call it Post Secondary Enrollment Options PSEOP.)</p>
<p>This Missouri program sounds like a nice idea for smart kids who have had enough of high school in 10th grade (and are not Ivy Bound - wouldn't this turn the kids into transfer students?). I would have loved something like this myself when I was this age (although I wouldn't have wanted to enter college as a transfer student - I just would have liked the get out of high school two years early part).</p>
<p>Mine never went to high school, applied and was accepted to prestige colleges after what would have been 10th grade. It was really no big deal. (she graduated last week). We've had friends at Harvard at ages 13 and 14.</p>
<p>Leon Botstein, the President of Bard, suggests that most college-bound kids are really ready for college at 14 or 15, and 150 years, when students were actually much less physically mature than they are now, and when most colleges required both Latin and Greek, that was more the norm than the exception.</p>
<p>A lot of Minnesota students take college classes for their last two years of high school, under a statewide program called PSEO. Just a few of those live on campus. (About half the state population is within reasonable commuting distance of the U of Minnesota.)</p>
<p>TAMS! just like Youdon'tsay said. Apparently out of all the kids that got accepted into MIT from Texas (around 20ish, if I remember correctly), 13 or so were from TAMS. I know the valedictorian, and she got accepted into Stanford. </p>
<p>i think if they have DUAL enrollment.....high school and college.......then they apply to college as an entering freshman.......and you'd want to see if the colleges they apply to will give them credit for the college level courses taken. not all do so you have to check with each college under consideration.</p>
<p>state of kansas is launching a math and science academy at ft. hays state.</p>
<p>Agreeing with post #11, to answer the OP's question, whether the students in this Missouri program would be freshman applicants or not at an Ivy would depend on whether their program is considered high school dual enrollment or matriculated enrollment in a college degree program. Minnesota's PSEO program is, of course, dual enrollment for high school.</p>
<p>I looked more at the more detailed pages. The Missouri program specifically says "Upon successful completion of the program, these students simultaneously earn a high school diploma and an Associate of Science Degree."</p>