<p>Graduate highschool in my junior year, get accepted to Berkeley, work for a year to pay for Berkeley, and then actually go to Berkeley?</p>
<p>just wondering, thanks.</p>
<p>No, it won’t really work in the long run. You are only considering the cost of your first year of college. What about years 2,3, and 4?</p>
<p>Berkeley doesn’t defer admissions anyway. If you don’t attend the term for which you applied, you forfeit your acceptance, and you have to apply again for the term that you will start.</p>
<p>I also doubt it’s reasonable to graduate high school in your junior year and still fill all of the UC course requirements.</p>
<p>you should just go to community college for 2 years and then transfer.</p>
<p>agree with MechRocket, you should go to a CC for 2 years.</p>
<p>If you can get in as a freshmen, I can’t see why you won’t make it as a transfer.</p>
<p>But he wants to go there for the full 4 years.</p>
<p>Possible in some remote fashion, but highly unlikely.</p>
<p>1) One year of work would only pay for one year of Cal. This is assuming that you get a decent job, which for a recent high school grad could be asking for an awful lot.</p>
<p>2) Why graduate early from high school at all? Your work experience would separate you from the entering class far more than any age would.</p>
<p>3) Berkeley does not defer admissions. You are accepted for the term they offer only, and this offer is nigh non-negotiable.</p>
<p>4) Community college really is the best way to do the things your post seems to suggest you want: save money, graduate from Cal, and stay “on track” with the rest of your high school peers.</p>