I am currently a sophomore and will be graduating at the end of my junior year. I know this question gets asked a lot but how exactly will graduating early affect my chances of getting into a good college?
I do believe however that my case is not like most people who choose to graduate early. I did not know I was graduating early until recently. About a month ago my mom told me that I NEEDED to graduate early b/c of time constraints with our stay here (we moved here from mexico thanks to my mom’s job). Now I suddenly have one less year to prepare for college, to get all those amazing extracurriculars, to take all those challenging classes and I also find myself asking about college one year earlier than I would’ve hoped. Don’t get me wrong, even in my competitive school I’m way up there. I take lots of AP classes and if there’s not that option I take an honors class. I am also involved in many clubs, but there are clubs that I was waiting to be more prepared for or that we were putting money together for and now suddenly earliest I can do it is my senior year.
I’m not graduating early cause I feel too mature or whatever, I am doing out of necessity and visa related stuff. I was wondering if I should tell colleges the reason why I graduated early? But I’m also worried b/c I read some posts that colleges cared that the reason to graduate early was because of some passion or because they were ready for the next big step and I mean I have no problem lying and maybe explaining that that’s the overarching reason why. Or would it be more convenient to tell them the real version; I didn’t plan it, it came out of no where, time constraints, my time was suddenly shortened by a year, bla bla bla. What worries me about that is that I may sound completely unprepared for college and like nothing more than a little kid who was taken out of the system too early.
Thanks for the help!!