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Our daughter (my wife is a chemical engineer, HS physics and AP chemistry teacher, sometimes geometry teacher) pushed HERSELF through HS with AP classes and a dual-enrollment HS-College for her two last years.

IF anyone's child wants to - and the "want to" is essential! - I'd STRONGLY recommend dual enrollment, or college-level enrollment. AP classes at a minimum.

What she saw as an advantage to going to college at age 16 (as soon as she could drive tot the campus) was

(1) she did the same amount of effort taking a full-time college class (in physics for example) as she did taking an AP class, but did NOT have to worry about the single exam or getting some college to accept the equivalent of a AP class. She had finished it, and would not need it again.

(2) It was a college class, and would be accepted anywhere.

(3) She was on her own, and was finally being challenged by classes, rather than being bored.

(4) Equal-level classes (English lit, calculus, physics, history, etc) were the same in college and HS, so she could avoid repeating a >LOT of stuff in both.

(5) (Most important - to her, at least) College classes weer two days a week, 1-1/2 to 2 hours. Even Mon-Wed_Fri classes were shorter, and had fewer tests and assignments. So she could sleep late, go to a 11:00 class, eat lunch and go to 1 or 2 others, then come home. So she actually spent less time in class as a college student than she would have as a *:00 - 3:00 every day HS student.

And THAT let her work part-time for some extra dollars at the library!

Anyway, she graduated at age 19 with a two BS degrees, one in Physics, one in Math - and is now on her way to a masters.

The boys didn't want degrees, so they chose other ways, but it also shows that REEQUIRING a culture of "free college for everyone" only serves to pay for college professors.

Anyway, she graduated at age 19 with a two BS degrees, one in Physics, one in Math - and is now on her way to a masters.

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Congratulations!

One other benefit of send my kids to college early was that they were not influenced by the high school fashions or culture. They had delightful friends who were good students and goal directed in their personal lives.