High School Replacement – This group of programs allow students to replace their last year or two of high school with college. Care is taken that students will receive a high school diploma after completing time equivalent to the remainder of their high school years. These students then proceed to other colleges and universities where they apply credits already earned and complete their undergraduate education. Programs of this type are AAG, GAMES, MASMC, TAMS, TALH, EH, and TCS.
Early Admissions Group – While it is a common practice for many schools to have some sort of early admission, these programs take it a step further by recruiting and supporting groups of students as they enter the university early. These programs typically last only a short period, and students continue their undergraduate education at the university as regular students. Programs of this type include UWA, RHP and NAASE.
Young Scholars’ College – This type of program is a college in it’s own right but only accepts qualified young students. SRC is the only example of this type of program and is in many ways unique from the other four types of early entrance programs.
Collegiate High School – This type of program blurs the distinction between college and high school by creating a multi-year high school like environment that smoothly transitions to college studies after several years. The examples of this type of model are BUA, BHSEC, and ECG. It should be noted that the Gates Foundation, in cooperation with other partners, has recently announced an effort to fund the creation of many more schools along the BHSEC model.
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