Hi,
I am not saying that it can’t be done. It is obvious that it can. I was trying to get help on how to do this with an highly accelerated/gifted child in a state that doesn’t allow their children to graduate early. My State doesnt allow this unless the reason I stated above. No one is addressing this type of issue. My thoughts on this is that, there has to be away around this. One, is Ap testing because those scores don’t expire.
Thanks,
Micklereed
This issue popped up on the well trained mind forum recently. Basically the kids can graduate early by testing out of high school. I am in another country so I don’t know the names of the test but basically from 13 they can sit a test to get a high school diploma and graduate. This fees them from high school. In most states any study is enough to satisfy the criteria. So you might homeschool high school while being fully enrolled in college. Homeschooling high school could be exactly the same units as what they just happen to be learning in college. 
if it needed to be.
I think every situation is different and it will require some digging and phone calls to find the right loopholes. Boy did I spend some time looking for a way into college early for my kids! Now I am on the hunt to make it affordable. The thing with putting kids into college early is that they are accumulating dept before they are old enough to understand what that means (at least in Australia they do) so scholarships become all the more important. Skipping high school does give them an extra couple of years of earning capacity though!
Ring a few colleges, ring the homeschool legal defence, ask at a few conventions. Your answer is there. Keep digging.
I Don’t mean to be presumptuous but are you sure that 18 is the age. If I were willing to send my son to Kindergarten this year he would graduate college at 17 by not accelerating at all. This is not an exception as there are many kids with birthday between June anspd September or even so far as Decmeber that fall into this category. Without knowing the state you are in it would be hard to dispense advice. I would be willing to look into this for you. You can PM your state if you don’t want to share it here.
I know in OH you can dual enroll in college at the age of 14-15. You can also graduate college if you have enough credits at a young age. I have had public schooled friends in CA, NV and ID all graduate at 16 as they did summer school, had the credits and passed their states high school test.
From what I know there is no age limit. It is really an academic limit. You can test for the OGT (Ohio graduate test) the spring of Sophomore year. The easiest way around this is to homeschool and show a students portfolio that is doing Sophomore level work. They could be 10 or 15. This is one loophole.
I may be wrong but I think one can take the GED as young as 16 also. But this is not really a college path option.