Very mature 16-year-old - applying early?

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PLEASE DON’T! Not if you want her to go to the most selective schools, anyway. They will consider classes taken after high school graduation to mean that the student is a transfer student. Many scholarships are just for freshmen, and many top schools are FAR easier to get into as a freshman than as a transfer. I agree with LoremIpsum that she can probably go to the CC, but I totally disagree with graduating her from high school first. Use dual-enrollment with homeschool.</p>

<p>Your daughter’s awesome, but if she applies to school a year early she will be competing with awesome kids who have had an additional year to mature and to accomplish. But it would certainly be academically reasonable for her to go a year early. Try reading around the homeschool forum - you’ll find lots of paths that can work

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<p>In our experience this was true across a range of friends. Kids who graduated early, young, especially those who skipped a grade of HS were more likely to not get into the amazing schools. That might be because the school looked twice at their transcript & age or it could be that they were actually less mature and did not write as well. I have no way to know, it is only anecdotal, but our HS GC said that skipping a grade of HS was only issing out on the opportunity to experience more in HS and build a resume.</p>

<p>That being said, one of my kids graduated at 15 and had no interest in an Ivy type school, the LAC she attended worked with us quite wonderfully and tailored their treatment of her to her individual situation.</p>