<p>Just got this pamplet from USC about Resident Honors Program.</p>
<p>Questions are</p>
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<li><p>Which top-ranked colleges accept Juniors from HS to skip Senior year? Is USC the only one?</p></li>
<li><p>Does it mean that there are going to be 4 years for college for graduation or 5 years? Do the number of units requirement for getting degree dependent on whether they skipped senior year?</p></li>
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<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I don’t have a list, but I know that Caltech has accepted the occassional junior. I also have a friend who was accepted to Boston University (and several others that I can’t remember) as a junior.</p>
<p>If a student graduated high school in three or fewer years and applied to universities in his/her third year, why would the universities have to do anything special in considering the student’s application? Especially since the three year high school graduate has probably reached the most advanced level courses offered at the high school in his/her third year anyway.</p>
<p>ucbalumnus, I think we are talking here of two different things. The OP is talking about an early entrance after junior year of high school without having graduated HS (USC has such a program). That is different than early graduation. My own daughter did the latter. She graduated high school in three years after her junior year. She earned a diploma at the time of her graduation. She then entered college at 16 (she was particularly young as she also had an early kindergarten entrance). There was nothing special to her college admissions process and she could apply to any college. I called colleges when she was in tenth grade and begging us to graduate HS early and I anonymously asked schools on her preliminary list if they took students who graduated HS in three years after junior year and each school said as long as she had a HS diploma, they didn’t care how many years she went to HS. I do know that early graduates like her get further scrutinized in the admissions process and she included a separate statement with all her applications as to her rationale for graduating early (and her recs also spoke to her readiness for college). But this is different than what the OP is asking about special programs for early entrance (not the same as an early HS graduate) and fewer colleges have such a program. For my D, while she went to HS for three years and earned a diploma, she went to college for four years like anyone else.</p>
<p>(my D attended NYU)</p>
<p>I’m not sure but colleges with Early Entrance programs MAY include Bard Wellesley, Boston University, and Clarkson.</p>
<p>When they get accepted after junior year, do they finish college in 4 years or 5.</p>
<p>Also, like USC, is there a specific name for Caltech program.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I’m not positive how it works for these special programs that accept students after junior year without a high school diploma. I think they still do college in four years, but it is beneficial to contact each program directly and ask. </p>
<p>Again, this is different than early graduation after junior year of high school (including a HS diploma) like my daughter did and in those cases, the student attends college for four years like anyone else. And what my D did and others like her at ANY college, has NO special program, and the applicants are like anyone else but are simply further scrutinized as early HS graduates.</p>
<p>You would have FAR more college options if you (or your child) graduates high school after junior year and actually earns a HS diploma, however, at that time.</p>
<p>By the way, upon examining USC’s Resident Honors Program (their early entrance program), it is four years.</p>
<p>I think most top colleges do not formally require high school graduation as an admission requirement, and will consider applications from juniors (or sophomores, for that matter) who are not planning to graduate before entering college. That said, I don’t think a whole lot of them are accepted, other than to programs that are specifically set up to encourage such applications. (The one I know best is Bard/Simon’s Rock.) It’s something I would think about doing with a child only as a last resort.</p>
<p>As far as I know, when they are admitted to college the kids are admitted as regular students – certainly no extra years requirements, and some of the kids who do this already have some college credit and may graduate in less than four years.</p>
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<p>They don’t do anything special in this instance, but it is not necessarily true that the three-year graduate has reached the most advanced courses offered at the high school. Sometimes, students fulfill the graduation requirements in three years but do not take a lot of advanced courses because they don’t have time. Their reason for graduating early may have nothing to do with having reached the limits of what their high school has to offer academically.</p>
<p>A member of my family graduated early in such circumstances many years ago. She wanted to go to college early because the parent she lived with had just married someone whom she did not like, and she wanted to get out of their house for as much of the year as possible. She arranged to graduate a year early, but she had only one AP course. If she had stayed for the fourth year, she would have had many more.</p>
<p>Regardless of the number of advanced courses, I think it is wise to get a high school diploma before going to college. If, for any reason, the student leaves college before graduating (even temporarily), that high school diploma may become an important credential for job hunting.</p>
<p>I vaguely remember something along those lines coming in the mail from St. Lawrence.</p>
<p>Someone headed to Caltech may have run out of science and math courses at their high school, but not have fulfilled their state’s requirements for English. I believe that they just start Caltech as ordinary freshman, their is no special program. The Bard/Simon’s Rock program and if you are female the Mary Baldwin program are especially designed as sort of transitional programs designed for younger students. </p>
<p>Here’s a FAQ about Mary Baldwin and info about official college level programs for very young students (under 15): [Early</a> Entrance Foundation Frequently Asked Questions](<a href=“http://www.earlyentrancefoundation.org/faqs.html]Early”>http://www.earlyentrancefoundation.org/faqs.html)</p>
<p>I get the impression that most students who attend the Ivies+ could have started college early. That’s why I chose to keep my son on track for high school graduation with his peers even though he had demonstrated that he could have been successful as an early college student. It is possible to accelerate through high school, end up taking most of the APs when most students only have time for a few, take community college courses, play a musical instrument, enjoy sports, take a year to do a study abroad exchange program etc. I figure there is no hurry and that he has plenty of time to study with peers in the future.</p>
<p>Mine entered Smith after what would have been sophomore year (and was invited to do so by Williams and a host of others). It wasn’t “early entrance”. (And she already had 66 college credits, at two- and four-year colleges, which she threw away, and started again.)</p>
<p>Every college we called said they would accept a HS junior without a degree, if they had exhausted their HS classes. Son only needed English IV to get a HS degree, so applied as a junior.</p>
<p>College would have been 3 or 4 years to graduate. State flagship would have accepted all APs and local college classes. CMU would have started him in sophomore status. Where he went accepted nothing.</p>
<p>As an aside, the worm found many kids younger than him. Mini’s D and Sooziet’s D were just 16. When son started grad school, one of his classmates was 16.</p>
<p>Naveenjain: Do your homework. Almost every “top college” has the answer to this question in their Common Data Set (search for this term in the college’s website, and if you don’t get it on the first hit, search for the college’s Institutional Research Department and you should find the CDS there). Question C19 of the CDS is: “Does your institution allow high school students to enroll as full-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) students one year or more before high school graduation?” Here are a just a few “top” schools who admit juniors, as per their CDS: Macalester, Oberlin, Amherst, Johns Hopkins.</p>
<p>I know that Georgia Tech has an early admission program. They really spell out on their web page what is required.</p>
<p>[Early</a> Admission | Admission](<a href=“Blow the Whistle! (404 error: page not found) | Undergraduate Admission”>Blow the Whistle! (404 error: page not found) | Undergraduate Admission)</p>