HS Junior entering college early

kenf1234
Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:24:25 +0000

“If you are in high school, you should finish it.”

Why in the world should you finish it? If you are ready for college, why not go to college? There are lots of reasons not to finish high school:


You max out what is available at your high school, so your senior year you’d have to take college courses anyway even to have a full schedule.
You have something very specific you want to study that is only available in college, and you don’t want to waste time on the 12th grade curriculum.
You are not happy in high school. It is not a good environment, but you’d likely do better in a college environment.
You have long-term educational goals that will take a long time, and you want to get a head start.
You chafe under the overly structured style of high school and learn better in a more independent environment.
etc. etc.


Sticking it out for the sake of sticking it out is just silly. The main advantage of sticking it out is that, for many people, it offers much greater choice of potential college. But for many people, that’s not the case, or not worth the trade-off.