Applying to college as a HS junior

dmd77
Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:04:58 +0000

My son went to college after his junior year of HS.

Not all colleges will accept such applications.

Yes, all standardized testing needs to be done. If your D is a junior now, it may be too late to get all the testing in on time.

If the HS is not supportive, you will find it harder than if they are supportive, esp. such things as GC recommendations and teacher recommendations. You may be able to get them anyway, but they may not be helpful.

All of the schools my S spole too (which were not many) said that they didn’t care if someone applied junior year and didn’t get in, it didn’t affect a new application the next year.

Some schools award diplomas and some don’t. In Washington state, students can enter college under Running Start and get their HS diploma later; some other states have similar programs I don’t know enough about. My son’s HS will not give him a diploma ever, making him an HS dropout who has (to date) completed nearl 2 1/2 years of college.