I dropped out of high school junior year and went to Caltech on a merit scholarship. I had some awards and published a paper.
The social problems come once you're already
at the college. If you're not prepared you stand a decent chance of cracking. Right now I'm taking a year off because -- well, let's just say I wasn't prepared. I don't recommend graduating early, it's nice to have an extra year to relax and take fun courses and make new friends and generally be a kid.
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by graduating early you are proving how extremely precocious you are
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If anything it hurts you because you have to prove you're as academically and emotionally mature as a graduating senior. Basically, if you apply early you'll be competing on the same level as all the other applicants, so they'll want you to do in three years what everyone else did in four.