Early HS graduation & merit aid?

Like what? Which schools and what kind of “restrictions” will be placed on a 17 year old freshman and not an 18 year old freshman?

This isn’t junior’s decision to make until he he waves goodbye to minority status? Does he have any say at all? My own experience with teenagers is that this wouldn’t go over well. Making decisions and learning from mistakes is part of growing up and becoming an adult. Certainly parents can/should give advice and make opinions known, but the apron strings have to be cut at some point, and not all at once on the 18th birthday (or some other arbitrary date).