I was on a panel discussion with Fred Hargadon, the retired former Dean of Admissions of Princeton and Stanford

Early Entrance College Programs

Many colleges, when approached individually, will allow the young student to take a course or two. Others will allow the young student to become matriculated, often based on their SAT or ACT scores and previous academic achievement. But some schools have specialized programs designed for young students at least 2 years before high school graduation. These programs are listed here...

Advanced Academy of Georgia West Georgia University, West Georgia, Georgia USA

High school juniors and seniors enroll fulltime in State University of West Georgia Honors College while concurrently completing high school graduation requirements

 

Alaska Pacific University Anchorage, Alaska USA

The Early Honors Program is both an alternative to the senior year in high school and a challenging springboard into college...

 

Bard High School Early College Bard College, New York City, New York USA

Enables highly motivated students to move in four years from ninth grade through the first two years of college, earning the associate of arts (A.A.) degree as well as a high school diploma...

 

Boston University Academy Boston, Massachusetts USA

A co-educational day school for students in grades 8 through 12, Boston University Academy offers an educational program that combines a classical curriculum with a rigorous approach to the intellectual and cultural challenges of contemporary life

 

California State University, Los Angeles, Early Entry Program (EEP) Los Angeles, California USA

"Why College So Young?" A parent's testimonial on CSULA's EEP

 

The Clarkson School Potsdam, New York USA

Clarkson School Bridging Year is an early entrance 1-year residential program for 12th grade students

 

Early College at Guilford (ECG) Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina USA

for students from Guilford County, NC

 

EarlyEntrance.org

Youth Should Never Be A Barrier To Learning. A number of programs exist that turn early college into a reality for more of today's talented youth...

 

Early Experience University of Denver, Denver, Colorado USA

For high school students interested in taking college courses for both high school and college credit

 

Early Honors (EH) Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, Alaska USA

Your last year of high school can be your first year of college...

 

Florida Atlantic University High School Boca Raton, Florida

Intensive dual enrollment public high school on the university campus.  Highly selective program offers high school students (grades 9-12) the opportunity to earn high school credits and university course hours, at the same time at no cost to parents or guardians...

 

Georgia Academy of Mathematics, Engineering, and Science (GAMES) Middle Georgia College, Cochran, Georgia USA

For high school juniors or seniors with a special interest in mathematics, engineering, science, and allied health fields; students who complete the 2-year program are given an associate's degree and a high school diploma

 

Get Out Of Jail Free Comprehensive list of part-time college and early college programs for gifted students...
 

Mary Baldwin College, The Program for the Exceptionally Gifted (PEG) Staunton, Virginia USA

Young, academically talented women begin their college education 1 to 4 years early within a community of their peers, at any point after completing 8th grade, though one year of high school experience is frequently recommended

 

The Missouri Academy of Science, Mathematics and Computing Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO, USA

Applicants must be currently enrolled in the tenth grade or equivalent, who will have completed Geometry and Algebra II by the end of the sophomore year; two-year program of college coursework, simultaneously earning college credits and a high school diploma

 

National Academy of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering (NAASE) University of Iowa, Iowa, USA

Early entrance program for who have completed course work equivalent to the junior year; Academy students are accepted automatically as freshmen into The University of Iowa Honors Program

 

Residential Honors Program (RHP) University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

1-year early-entrance program; students earn a high school diploma while concurrently enrolled in USC classes

 

Shimer College Early Entrant Program Waukegan, Illinois USA

Shimer's experience of fifty years demonstrates that the serious student who enters college after the 11th, and in some cases after the 10th grade handles college life responsibly...

 

Simon's Rock College of Bard Great Barrington, Massachusetts USA

Most applicants are 14 to 16 years old, and have completed 9th grade; earn either an Associate in Arts degree after 2 years, or a Bachelor of Arts degree after 4 years

How Much High School Is Enough? Some Students Benefit by Leaving After 10th Grade, Some Educators Contend by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post Staff Writer

 

Texas Academy of Leadership in the Humanities (TALH) Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, USA

two-year residential honors program that allows juniors and seniors in high school to complete their last two years of high school credits and their first two years of college requirements concurrently

 

Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (TAMS) University of North Texas, Denton, Texas USA

Residential program for high school-aged Texas students who are gifted in math and science and have completed 10th grade; upon completion students receive a special high school diploma and are classified as college juniors

 

Total enrollment in all degree-granting institutions, by sex, age, and attendance status, with high alternative projections: Selected years, fall 1993 to fall 2013 from NCES National Center for Education Statistics

Note the numbers for full- and part-time college enrollment, current and projected, for men and women 14 to 17 years old...

 

University of Washington Transition / Early Entrance Program Seattle, Washington USA

The Transition School for students no more than l4 years old, and Early Entrance Program for full-time university students who are "graduates" of the Transition School

All Rivers Lead to the Sea: A Follow-up Study of Gifted Young Adults (Adobe Acrobat file, click here to download Adobe Reader)

 

From: http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/early_college.htm

Appendix V: SAT Subject Tests:

(from http://www.compassprep.com/admissions_req_subjects.aspx)

School	Subject Tests Required	Subject Tests Recommended	Subject Tests Considered
American University	^*	X
Amherst College	2^*
Babson College	^*	2
Bard College	^*		X
Barnard College	2^*
Bates College	^*		X
Beloit College	^*		X
Bennington College	^*		X
Boston College	2^*
Boston University	2^*
Bowdoin College	^*		X
Brandeis University	2^*
Brown University	2^*
Bryn Mawr College	2^*
Bucknell University	^*		X
California Institute of Technology	2^*
Carleton College	^*	X
Carnegie Mellon University	2^*
Case Western Reserve University	^*	3
Claremont McKenna	^*	X
Colby College	^*		X
Colgate University	^*	X
College of the Holy Cross	^*		X
College of William and Mary	^*	X
Colorado College	^*		X
Columbia University	2^*
Connecticut College	2^*
Cooper Union	^*		X
Cornell University	2^*
Dartmouth College	2^*
Davidson College	^*	2
Duke University	2^*
Emory University	^*		X
Franklin Olin College of Engineering	3^*
George Washington University	^*		X
Georgetown University	3^*
Goucher College	^*		X
Hamilton College	^*		X
Hampden-Sydney College	^*	2
Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges	3^*
Harvey Mudd College	2^*
Haverford College	2^*
Hollins University	^*	X
Ithaca College	^*		X
Johns Hopkins University	^*	3
Kenyon College	^*		X
Lafayette College	^*	X
Lehigh University	^*	X
Macalester College	^*		X
Massachussetts Institute of Technology	3^*
McGill University	3^*
Middlebury College	^*		X
Mills College	^*	X
Mount Holyoke College	^*		X
New York University	^*	2
Northwestern University	^*	3
Oberlin College	^*	X
Occidental College	^*	2
Pomona College	2^*
Princeton University	3^*
Providence College	^*	2
Reed College	^*	X
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	^*		X
Rice University	2^*
Scripps College	^*	X
Skidmore College	^*	X
Smith College	^*	2
Stanford University	^*	3
Swarthmore College	2^*
Trinity College (CT)	^*	X
Tufts University	2^*
Tulane University	^*		X
University of California, Berkeley	2^*
University of California, Davis	2^*
University of California, Irvine	2^*
University of California, Los Angeles	2^*
University of California, Merced	2^*
University of California, Riverside	2^*
University of California, San Diego	2^*
University of California, Santa Barbara	2^*
University of California, Santa Cruz	2^*
University of Chicago	^*		X
University of Delaware	^*	2
University of Notre Dame	^*		X
University of Pennsylvania	2^*
University of Rochester	^*		X
University of Southern California	^*	X
University of Texas, Austin	^*		X
University of Virginia	2^*
Vanderbilt University	^*	X
Vassar College	2^*
Wake Forest University	^*	X
Washington and Lee University	2^*
Washington University in St. Louis	^*		X
Wellesley College	2^*
Wesleyan University	2^*
Whitman College	^*		X
Williams College	2^*
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	2^*
Yale University	3^*

^* If an ACT score is submitted, Subject Tests may not be required.

Appendix VI: List of Lists: From responses on the NACAC E-list:
Accelerated Dental Program
Adelphi University with Tufts University

Boston University

Case Western Reserve

Case Western Reserve University

Marquette

Moravian (with Temple)

NYU

St. John's (with Columbia)

Stevens Institute of Technology

Tufts University

U Iowa

U Missouri--Kansas City

U Nebraska--Omaha

U Penn

U Texas--Austin

University of Minnesota

University of Pennsylvania

University of Southern California

University of the Pacific

Virginia Commonwealth University

Wilkes University with Temple University
Acoustical Engineering
www.aes.org (Audio Engineering Society)

www.neit.edu (New England Institute of Technology)

www.connectedu.net (to do a search)

 

American U.

Belmont U. (Nashville)

Bucknell

Clemson

College of Santa Fe

DePaul

Drexel

Emerson

Five Towns College

Hope

Illinois

Indiana

Lebannon Valley

Loyola (New Orleans)

Loyola Marymount

Maryland

Miami (FL)

Michigan

Middle Tennessee State

NYU

Ohio U.

St. Mary's (Winona, MN)

Stevens Inst. of Technology (NJ)

Texas State-San Marcos

Trinity (Connecticut)

U. of Hartford

U. of New Haven

U. of Rochester

UMass-Lowell

Union (New York)

USC

Virginia Tech

Air Traffic Control
College of Aeronautic

Community College of Beaver County

Daniel Webster College

Dowling College

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Hampton University

Inter American University of Puerto Rico

Miami-Dade Community College

Middle Tennessee State University

Minneapolis Community & Technical

Mt. San Antonio College

Purdue University

University of Alaska Anchorage

University of North Dakota

Art Therapy
Arcadia

Art Inst of Chicago

College of New Jersey

College of New Rochelle

College of Santa Fe

Lesley College

LIU/CW Post

Loyola Marymount California

Loyola University of New Orleans

Millikin U

Mount Mary College, Wisconsin

Nazareth College

NYU

Seton Hill College

Spring Hill College

Springfield College

St. Thomas Aquinas

U of Indianapolis

U of the Pacific

U of Wisconsin - Superior

Asperger's –College for

 

Albion C

Augsberg

Clark U

Earlham

Elon University

Guilford College (several mentioned this one)

Goucher College

Harvey Mudd

Landmark College (2 mentions)

Manhattanville

Mitchell College CT

Moravian C

Muskingum (several of you suggested this)

Northeastern U

Schreiner University in Kerrville, Texas

Southern Illinois-contact Roger Pugh

U Arizona

U Central Florida (Orlando)

U Denver

U Illinois-Champaign

U Mass-Boston

U Montevallo-Alabama

U Ozarks

U Puget Sound

U Rochester

Westminster C-MO

Whitman

Wilkes University

Worcester Poly

Aviation Science
Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus

Averett University

Bowling Green State University

Central Washington University

Daniel Webster College

Dowling College

Embry-Riddle

Florida Institute of Technology

Jacksonville University

Kent State

LeTourneau University

Lewis University (IL)

Lynn University

Metropolitan State (Denver)

Ohio University

Parks College of St. Louis University

Purdue University

Southern Illinois University

SUNY

University of Alabama

University of Cincinnati

University of Minnesota—Crookston

University of Nebraska—Omaha

University of North Dakota

Vaughn College of Aeronautics

Webster University

Western Michigan University

Westminster College (UT)

Automotive Engineering
www.students.sae.org/chapters/choosecollege:
ASU-Polytech campus

E. Tenn State

Kettering University (formerly GMI-General Motors Institute), MI

Lehigh

LMU

McPherson College

Mercer, GA

Michigan Tech

New England Institute of Tech

Northwood, MI

Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport

Pittsburg State (Kansas)

Purdue

Rochester Inst Tech

Rose-Hulman

SUNY Morrisville

U of Cincinnati

UNC Charlotte

Weber

Western Washington U.

Automotive: other
Alfred State, NY

CLE (FL),

Greenville Tech, GA

Lawrence Inst of Tech, MI

Northwood (FL, TX, MI),

Southern Illinois

SUNY Canton College of Tech

SUNY Farmingdale

SUNY Morrisville

Vermont Tech

Vincennes, IN

Weber