<p>I'm inquiring about which top 25 colleges accept high school juniors, so that they can begin their freshman year of college in their senior year, in lieu of spending it at their high school? </p>
<p>From searching, I only see that Emory does. I don't see any more, so if anyone can inform of those that do, it'd be great. </p>
<p>Also, does anyone know if applying as a junior will hurt me in any way? Some people have told me that it would hurt me socially, and all of this stuff, but I don't really care. </p>
<p>Some high schools have an early graduation option, and as far as I know early graduates are treated the same as other applicants in most schools. 4 early graduates from my school last year - 1 Princeton, 1 Caltech, 1 MIT and 1 UC Berkeley.</p>
<p>Yale, Bard, Sewanee, Princeton, Caltech, MIT, UC, USC, Harvard, UChicago, JHU. I nearly did the USC thing myself, but stayed home instead. In retrospect a wise choice as being far from home is harder than it sounded.</p>
<p>Almost all schools do as long as you have the full support of your school and are an outstanding candidate with valid reasons for skipping senior year.</p>
<p>San Francisco State accepted my friend’s sister who is a junior but aren’t there mandatory classes in your high school that are exclusive to only seniors?</p>
<p>The most obvious ways that applying as a junior will hurt you are that you won’t have a high school diploma and you’ll have a year less of school than everyone else. You need a very good reason why they should accept you over a graduating senior.</p>
<p>I have never heard of a college or university that specifically required a HS diploma of all applicants. If the admissions committee believes that you are prepared to carry a full academic load, you will not be discriminated against in admission.</p>
<p>Contact the admissions offices of the institutions that you are interested in, and ask them about your specific case.</p>
<p>Yale will accept students w/o a formal HS diploma but won’t take anyone who doesn’t turn at least 18 sometime during the freshman year.</p>
<p>The issue with those who are accepted by top 15 schools is that those applicants are prodigies or near-prodigies. I’d say that all those who apply to those types of schools have probably surpassed their state minimums for graduation several semesters ago. However, many choose to max out their school’s offerings. As should you unless you have a compelling reason to leave early (such as already taken all your school’s top classes). Otherwise, you’re hurting your already limited chances of admission.</p>
<p>Look at this curious thread where the OP begins with a mistaken notion:</p>