<p>I've seen many, many, many would graduating at 15/14 junior/sophmore hurt or increase my chances? threads. In all of them, people answer "if you have a good reason, it should be fine."</p>
<p>So although I'm not going to graduate early, I'm still curious as to what exactly would be a good reason?</p>
<p>The only reason I can think of is becasue the stuff in HS is too easy. What other reasons are there, either good or bad...?</p>
<p>you want to become a doctor and you're going to spend 29384792384723 years in med school anyway.</p>
<p>Where are you planning to apply to college? At some colleges it won't matter at all, at others it might.</p>
<p>Also, if it's to your advantage to finish high school at the customary age (not saying it is or isn't -- I have one kid who did and another who did not), is there a way you can challenge yourself with college classes? My older one took a mix of high school and college classes for his last two years of "high school."</p>
<p>why would you want to graduate hs early? seriously, you dont wanna be under 18 when you enter college. im 17 right now and i cant even get into club parties (havent tried, but still). not to mention a bunch of volunteer programs require you to be 18. it sucks.</p>
<p>umm... i believe I mentioned I will NOT graduate early. I am just curious as to why people do and what would be a good reason to do so.</p>
<p>I think it's a natural progression for some kids. My daughter started college this fall at 16. She was ready, she wanted to be in a college environment. She's not interested in making herself into the perfect applicant for HYPS, she just wanted to get going.</p>
<p>Now that she's well into her first quarter, and she has classes and professors she really likes, it's clear it was just the absolute right thing for her. She has said so, and I can just see it. She's happy, energized, and the college environment just feels so much more well-suited to her.</p>
<p>You can look at if from the other angle... I mean, instead of asking what good reason would a particular person have to graduate early, you can alternatively ask for what good reason would they hold off for two years when they can go now and feel better about what they're doing? It's more like there wasn't a reason for her <em>not</em> to begin college. She was willing to go the local state u. and live at home for this first year, but she's planning to transfer to flagship state u. next year and have that away-from-home college experience. She'll graduate by the time she's 20. Then she wants to take some time to work and travel, and look toward starting graduate school at about the same age most other students are, 22 or 23.</p>
<p>It's not for everyone, but it's right for her.</p>
<p>It is not fine to graduate early by skipping grades in later years of Mid/High School.
It seems okay if you skipped early.</p>
<p>People who study a year or two late on the other hand seem to do remarkably well
at college (Socially and academically)</p>
<p>I have a good friend who is going to be on maternal leave and will be graduating early and self-studying for the rest of her AP tests</p>
<p>if your parents plan on moving out of the country after jr year...</p>