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<li><p>Does it look good?....bad??</p></li>
<li><p>Also separately, how does attending Community College in my Senior Year of HS look?</p></li>
<li><p>How about graduating early, and the following year that would be the Senior year taking Community College classes?</p></li>
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<p>On a side note: If I did that, would the Admissions people pay less attention to my HS grades and more on my CC grades?</p>
<p>If you graduate early and then attend a CC, you’ll be looking at transfer admission.</p>
<p>…so is this a good or bad thing? Its only a year at CC so i would still be applying to the college @ the same time as other high schoolers.</p>
<p>There are always exceptions that make graduating early the better option than focusing on the high school years holistically. Without knowing more about your specific situation/motivation it is difficult to give anything other than an opinion.</p>
<p>So my opinion is that if in fact you’re looking to go to a selective college than your proposed plan is not a good one. Better is to work within the courses and ECs offered by your high school, including involvement in the high school community, contributing to that community, and developing relationships with your teachers and fellow students. To replace that experience with what is likely to be a mostly impersonal student-teacher environment, and often mediocre coursework at a local CC, is likely to raise concerns from the admissions committee at selective colleges.</p>
<p>If however you’re planning to stay within your state public college system, then some of what I’ve said doesn’t apply, and you may in fact be able to enter the state college (as a previous poster noted) as a transfer student. It depends on what you’re looking for during your college years. If your focus will be strictly academic, then this may work for you. You’ll complete your undergraduate education sooner, and your total college costs will be lower than if you pursue a traditional sequence.</p>
<p>^Well said. State schools are often receptive to CC transfers, whereas more prestigious colleges might just be confused/concerned by this atypical arrangement. The fact that you’ll be applying at the same time as your peers are graduating high school doesn’t matter–you would no longer be a high school student but a college one.</p>
<p>What specific reasons do you have for graduating early? If it’s general antsiness about moving on in life or a boredom with the monotony of a high school curriculum, I recommend muscling through the rest of high school and then taking a gap year to get excited about school again.</p>