Graduating High School as a Junior

ns9908
Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:36:23 +0000

I graduated as a junior and applied and was accepted to my state’s flagship. Looking back, this was one of the best decisions I have ever made. Even though I could have taken more concurrent courses and several other APs (graduating early made me put off calculus until college, for instance) the atmosphere of college was able to challenge me much better than HS. At the very least I had access to their journal archive when I was interested in researching something.

I personally don’t think acceptance to a top-name school is worth a year of misery (which is what my senior year would have been despite the academic opportunities you will lack). I will say this though, make sure you know you’re ready for it socially because that situation can be rough when you’re less mature than everyone else (sadly there is some level of maturity that can only come with age). If you didn’t like yourself socially in HS now is the time to change yourself, it’s a whole new world and you can create your reality.