Re: stress in high school students

On Oct 31, 9:32 am, "Donna Metler" <dmmet...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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A high enough SAT score serves the purpose you want already, especially if
you have decent SAT II scores as well. It's not widely advertised, and you
give up significant financial aid, but many schools will accept a student
who hasn't completed high school, but is, say, 80%+ on all sections without
a problem. I don't know how many schools would take a CTY student at age 12
as a full-time, on campus student, but at, say age 16, it's really not hard
to find schools which will waive the policy.

However, what both DH and I found was that patching together a program
locally was a more cost-effective alternative. A mishmash of dual enrollment
and AP classes let both of us enter with significant credits already
completed, plus extremely generous scholarship packages, where when we'd
applied for full, early admission a few years later, the response had been
"Sure, we'd love to have you, but you're not eligible for financial aid or
scholarships since you haven't finished high school". And for me, at least,
that extra two years of taking private lessons and music classes helped
considerably, because the level of skill expectation at a University school
of music really doesn't have a cap.

The big financial benefit of entering the workforce early is often
ignored in such analyses. A bright college graduate working in the
private sector will often be earning more than $100K annually at the
peak of his career. If entering college 2 years early means $200K of
extra lifetime earnings, losing a few scholarships is a small price to
pay, assuming of course that the family can pay the full freight of
college costs at the beginning.

In the U.S. many private universities cost much more per year than
state universities (at least for residents of that state), but I'd
guess that they have a considerably better record of graduating
students in 4 years. One reason is that parents do NOT want to pay
more than 4 years of private college costs. Shaving a year from
college could be worth $100K for many students in the long run. The
analysis changes for people who choose less well-paying fields.


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