How old will your child be when they start college?

CountingDown
Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:02:04 +0000

^^^I’ll add that a big factor for us was also the availability of special programs where there was a critical mass of kids with similar abilities and talents. While S1 was 16 the first half of senior year, he was not the youngest in his class. It helped A LOT that he was able to take things like mathematical physics and complex analysis at a public HS with kids his own age.

It was a big commitment on our part as a family to deal with the long bus rides and heavy courseloads, but both of my kids have said they wouldn’t have done it any other way.

We know many families with kids who didn’t have those options and were left with FT or PT early college as the only realistic option. I am happy we didn’t have to deal with our flagship for a 14 yo.