<p>Hello, first time post here ^^
I'm planning on graduating my junior year from high school, and i had some questions.</p>
<p>Will graduating early affect my chances with Emory?</p>
<p>I only will have 4 AP classes if i graduate Junior year, will that matter much if they know that i graduated early?</p>
<p>top 5% (4.46 GPA) of class, and 2150 SAT
I dont have a lot of ECs but i have one that i commit alot of time to.</p>
<p>That’s one reason I didn’t graduate early. I felt as if I didn’t have enough APs. Also, my SAT score was slightly higher, but it doesn’t matter, at least you crossed the 2100 threshold. It would probably help to have over five APs unless you plan to attend a local college for a year or go abroad and do some type of humanitarian work. Perhaps you could do full joint-enrollment for your senior year instead. I know a student in my year from my town who did that and was admitted.
Also, what’s the deal with the weighted GPA. My school didn’t run on 4.0 system (we did numerical scores, thus, even with APs and honors, the highest you could get is 4.0 after weighting).</p>
<p>Since no one on here is on the admission committee, please take all responses with a grain of salt!</p>
<p>I do know that it’s not the number of APs that matters - it’s the difficulty of the curriculum that you take based on what is available to you. If you were only in high school three years, then it would stand to reason that you couldn’t possibly take the same number of difficult classes as someone who goes for four years. I think it’s pretty impressive that you graduated in three years to be honest, and that says a lot about you. With grades and scores as high as you have, you’ll be accepted to a great University, whether that’s to Emory or not. Hopefully that’s helpful?</p>
<p>I noticed that more and more students are graduating early to either 1. gain favorable advantage in the admissions, 2. follow other passions (afterall, academics aren’t everything), 3. wanting to be challenged by more difficult courses.</p>
<p>In any case, no school is going to hold against you for graduating early, provided that you DONE something worthwhile. </p>
<p>I would suggest you to take college courses at local college/community college after graduating to keep your study skills sharp.</p>
<p>Just remember that ALL admissions will want you to answer WHY you left school and it is encouraged to display your maturity in your interviews/essays.</p>
<p>Good luck~</p>