You say “attending Stanford” like that is an easy thing to do. By all means, apply to Stanford, but also apply to your state school and some others.
So you need to decide if you do get credit for at least 2 years of college, what do you want to do?
You may not want to graduate early, but you may want to:
- Do a Co-op//internship
- Study abroad
- Do a 3-2 Master’s program
- Do research
- Take lab courses
and take the 4 years.
It depends on what you want to major in…if those make sense.
But by starting off on a normal schedule won’t be worse than anyone else and you can slow down later if you don’t do any of the other things.
My daughter graduated in 2.5 years (HS Credits + some summer courses) but then finished her masters in 1.5 years…since we would pay for 4 years of college, she got a second degree within that time. We also told her not to rush but were not going to prevent her.
If you graduate early, you will be younger than others at work/grad school…my daughter wasn’t even 21 when she started grad school. Now she is a teacher at just barely 22.