Which colleges accept students under 18?

<p>Is there a list of schools (especially on the West coast) which accept foreign students aged 17 or even younger as freshmen? Thanks.</p>

<p>@ Mariska</p>

<p>It is very common for colleges and universities to admit students under 18 years of age. I don't know what are the rules for international students, but I'm quite sure as long as you complete your high school requirements, you are eligible for college enrollment regardless of age.</p>

<p>A can't guarantee this, but I'm about 95% sure that no colleges require you to be 18.</p>

<p>Cutoffs are different everywhere; depending on where you live, a high school senior could easily still be 17 when he or she goes off to college. I have a Dec birthday and I was 17 1/2 when I went off, turning 18 partway through my freshman year. I never skipped or was advanced a grade; I was within the normal grade I should have been in.</p>

<p>As far as I know, the only schools that might have a minimum age requirement are the military academies. There have been kids as young as 13 or 14 that get into and attend colleges in the U.S. --- sometimes even younger than that.</p>

<p>Yeah, right now I'm a rising senior and still 16 years old. By the time I get into college, I will still only be 17 and won't turn 18 until during my freshman year.</p>

<p>For age restrictions, I agree with carolyn. I think only military academies have an age restriction or minimum to attend</p>

<p>Right, exactly like everyone from the East Coast who was born in Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec or Jan when the cut offs were Jan 31. No big deal whatsoever.</p>

<p>My best friend and his sister were both 16 when they went to college. Between them they were accepted to UCLA, UCSD, Berkeley, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Northwestern. As long as you graduate from some type of high school program you should be fine.</p>

<p>Even graduation is not explicitly required for many schools.</p>

<p>MIT admissions officer Matt McGann has an [url=<a href="http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/homeschooled_applicants_helpful_tips/doogie_howser_et_al.shtml%5Dentry%5B/url"&gt;http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/homeschooled_applicants_helpful_tips/doogie_howser_et_al.shtml]entry[/url&lt;/a&gt;] on this topic in his blog.</p>

<p>To support the claim that you don't even need to graduate to be accepted to college I have a friend who was accepted to John Hopkins AND Caltech as a junior...</p>

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Yup, two of my close friends here at MIT came after their junior years of high school. I myself was only 17 for all of the past school year (though I didn't skip any grades or graduate early).</p>

<p>As others have suggested, this is not as unusual as you might think. In fact, the last time we surveyed students we admitted, we had to alter the research protocol for a big bunch of them because they hadn't turned 18 yet (minors under 18 have to be treated differently in research). I think it was almost 1/3 of the admitted class. Granted, many of them did turn 18 in the last months of summer, but not all.</p>

<p>Thanks, for all your replies. Maybe it is some community colleges which handle a minimum age of 18? Santa Barbara City College does, I know.</p>

<p>Are you sure it isn't 18 or high school graduation?</p>

<p>One of my classmates got accepted into Southern Cal this year as a junior and she was 17 so I guess that school does.</p>

<p>i know this has been said, but there are a lot of students accepted who are 17 and under as freshman, my sister being one of them</p>

<p>The SBCC website says:
" Please note that students must be 18 years or older at the time of their arrival at SBCC. "</p>

<p>Link: SBCC</a> - International</p>