Great accomplishment
I notice she said she'd be living in her own apartment, so they either have apartments for grad students, or she's living off campus.
Living off campus would be my choice, as a parent, I think dorm living would be a shocker to a homeschooled 17 year old.
Our kid took a similar route (not as young though.) He graduated college at 19, and had his Master's at 21. He also was a TA (great thing about that is your tuition is paid.)
But he lived at home the entire time, we're blessed with 3 universities with just a 30 minute commute. In that way he maintained the same friends who had the same core values and was not subjected to the raunchiness and distractions of dorm living.
We homeschool our sixteen-year-old daughter. She has been ready for college intellectually and academically for several years. We decided to wait so that she starts with her friends and typical high school class in 2017. It’s difficult to know how to handle a child with a genius IQ. We have attempted to keep her childhood as normal as possible. I continue to look for ways to challenge her and help her develop the gifts God gave her.
I’m not certain we made the right decision to wait for college. I can’t imagine two more years of home study, but I also can’t imagine her a part of the social milieu of college either. She would excel academically, but I fear she would be isolated socially. I started college early and to this day my parents would be shocked if they knew what I encountered the very first week. I don’t want that for her, so I readily admit part of the decision to wait on college was fear-based. Her younger sisters are also homeschooled and extremely intelligent. We haven’t wanted to break up their shared childhood by having their big sister head off to college.
“I think dorm living would be a shocker to a homeschooled 17 year old.”
...and possibly quite dangerous. I agree. I lived in a dorm decades ago, and I can only imagine what it must be like now, especially when parents aren’t looking. If there’s a way to avoid putting your kid in a dorm, then DO IT! I nearly failed out because of dorm life. Once I figured out that was the problem (and got an apartment well off campus), I did much, much better. In this case, she has no connection to the high school degenerates that will be populating the dorms, so it’s better if she never steps foot in one.
...and like you (I’m sure) your kid never missed dorm life, not even for a day.