For a person graduating school early..

Applying to College
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<p>What do I need to do? What process should I take?</p>

<p>I’m in my 2nd year in a crappy HS, where math and science are limited. We have IB HL, but they’re not challenging.</p>

<p>I decided I’m gonna graduate early with the highest degree I could get in the state…</p>

<p>but I have no clue on how I would proceed.</p>

<p>I want to know if I could go to George Mason University with only 3 years of HS(Being a HS graduate of course) and online courses to fill up requirements,</p>

<p>if not I would go to NVCC and just spend a year, then apply to my top schools.</p>

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<p>Graduation requirements differ from state to state/school to school. Talk to your guidance counselor about how to do that.</p>

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<p>I do know my state graduation requirements, so I could finish up by just taking online AP Courses.</p>

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<p>Use the following query in google:</p>

<p>“[name of college] collegeboard”</p>

<p>click on the first link, go to the admissions tab, and scroll down to “High School Preparation”. For GMU, it says "High School diploma required, GED accepted " so you will need a diploma. </p>

<p>Several top schools, however, do not require a high school diploma. Yale, Harvard, and MIT are three that I can think of.</p>

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<p>Ah I see. Well I could easily finish requirements for them by the end of this year, I wonder how that will affect my admissions chances?</p>

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<p>The dean of admissions at GMU has his own blog at [Not</a> Your Average Admissions Blog “A Beneath the Surface Look At Everything College Admissions (with a few shameless plugs)”](<a href=“http://notjustadmissions.com/]Not”>http://notjustadmissions.com/) You should get in touch with him about your particular situation. Many colleges and universities will admit students who have not completed HS or a GED if they believe that those particular students are prepared for college-level work, even when the website states that normally a HS diploma is required.</p>

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<p>I graduating hs in 3 years and it didn’t hurt my chances of getting into the schools that I wanted to get into, but my SAT score did.</p>

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<p>Hmm, I’ll look into it.</p>

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<p>Have you looked into whether your school allows for dual enrollment, so you can simultaneously take cc or college courses & get both college & HS credit? That is an option in many states. You can contact your local state Us and CCs to find out if that may be an option to give you more challenging curriculum.</p>

<p>My D got her GED by passing a national exam after her junior year of HS & then went into CC during the fall of what would have been her SR year of HS. It worked out OK for her & she transferred into the U of her dreams 3 semesters later. She was emotionally, socially, physically and intellectually ready for CC & the U she transferred to, so things worked well. For some folks, there is a missmatch, which makes the transition much more difficult. These factors should be weighed and discussed with adults who care about you, including your family and faculty who care about you and know you well.</p>

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<p>Yeah… my schools hates dual enrollment. They were iffy to bring up the topic in the first place.</p>

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At which point you’d be applying as a transfer student and not a freshman; this makes it more difficult, and some top schools don’t accept xfers or only accept them as juniors.

No offense, but if you’re not able to talk to your HS counselor and/or administrators about a program that exists and seems right for you, then you’re not ready for college.</p>

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<p>I mean I brought up online courses and they seem bewildered. and IB is horrificallu easy. It’s not the fact I’m afraid, it’s the fact they’re stoic.</p>