Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: sygyzy
What is the point? You don't impress anyone. Trust me. What would you do? Go go college as a 16 year old? And when all of them are out clubbing or socializing or drinking, you stay at home. And you think they'd want to hang out with you? You're smart. You could graduate early. Congrats. Seriously. But I don't see any benefit. Plus half of high school is the socializing and networking and friends. You want to give that all up?
I graduated very early and it was definitely worth my time. By the time I was 18, I'd collected enough community college credits to be a junior in college. That probably saved me 2-3 years worth of tuition at a major university, and I graduated with only 5k of debt.
Many of my friends who stayed in high school and did the socializing, networking and friends later wished they'd taken the early graduation route. Not everybody in college wants to go out clubbing or drinking. And graduating early doesn't mean that you have to go away to school and leave your high school friends either.
I feel like I got the best of both worlds - my high school friendships are still going strong, I got a great college education with half the time and less than half the cost of my friends, and I'm now 22, with three years of solid work experience behind me, money in the bank, and I'm not eagerly peering towards a graduation date because I'm tired of school.