<p>i was just wondering if anyone knows if UVA would consider accepting a junior or if a junior could finish their high school career and receive their diploma through UVA before going on and continuing at UVA for their college.</p>
<p>I know that my community college had this option, but not in the way you are phrasing - a student, who had completed all but 1 or 2 of their classes by the end of junior year, could take the remaining classes in summer school (receive their diploma), then spend their senior year at the community college. Colleges themselves do not grant high school degrees.</p>
<p>As far as UVA, I did some searching but did not come up with anything. I would recommend contacting the admissions department and asking them through email.</p>
<p>You can always stay at your high school and take dual enrollment classes either at UVA if it is close or at your local community college or another university, with or without your high school’s permission (I took classes at my local cc and Villanova during high school which were not pre-approved or related to my high school diploma).</p>
<p>Two of my friends at UVA finished their junior year at their H.S. and then started at UVA, so I know it’s possible. Needless to say, they were extremely brilliant and came from rigorous Northern VA high schools.</p>
<p>While you may be able to complete the basic requirements for your high school in three years, you may not be competitive for admission to a selective school.</p>
<p>Generally, students who are successful in selective school admission have taken advanced courses at their high schools. If you have exhausted your school’s offerings by junior year and want to move on, that’s one thing. If you simple have accumulated enough credits to graduate, but haven’t taken advanced courses at your school (AP, IB, DE…whatever your school offers), that’s another. Does that makes sense?</p>
<p>Dual enrollment at a local school may be a good option for you, you could take your first year of college in lieu of your senior year of HS, and as long as you pass everything and fulfill all HS req’s, you will have your HS diploma and ~24-36 college credits, which you could then transfer to UVA. UVA was one of the few schools I considered that took dual enrollment credits. Many competitive schools (Columbia, Cornell to name a couple) do not and all those credits are more or less worthless.</p>
<p>thank you for all your help.</p>