<p>Which universities with top cs/math departments consider high school juniors (planning to leave high school one year early, not planning to earn high school diploma)?</p>
<p>I know MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Harvey Mudd, USC, and Carnegie Mellon do consider such applicants, while U Chicago, UC Berkeley, and UCLA do not. Are there other schools with top cs/math departments that do?</p>
<p>Does it depends on whether they obtain all credits during high school?</p>
<p>Check the common data sets for each of the schools you’re interested in. In section C3, there’s an option for colleges to say whether they require a high school diploma, GED, or neither a diploma or GED. For instance, Northwestern doesn’t require either a GED or diploma according to its CDS. But please, double check this advice. There’s a very good chance I could be completely mistaken.</p>
<p>Enjoy your high school senior year. Give yourself another year to mature before you have to deal with college-level stress. Concentrate on earning AP credits your senior year, which will save you many thousands of dollars.</p>