21 years old to be accepted?

I breifly read on a a site you need to be 21+ to get into the big 3 schools? i hope not, i'm 20

 

It is correct for TESC unfortunately.

However,

 

any idea about COSC?

 

What I find really curious about COSC is that while admission is open to those aged 16 and over (reference, top of page 9), they claim they do not discriminate based on age (ibid, bottom of page 3).

Since when was setting a minimum age not discriminating? If a 17 year old can earn an MBA, why can't a 15 year old earn an associates' or bachelor's degree?

Edit: Fixed link

 

I think Excelsior mentions on their web site that an 18yr old earned a bachelor's.
Best,
Gavin

 

Perhaps because, as minors, they don't have the same legal rights as adults. They're not in a protected class when it comes to such discrimination.

There is a difference between the colloquial definition of discrimination and the legal one. I'm not an attorney, which is why I say "perhaps." But I suspect that's the case.

I would imagine, however, that an emancipated minor would be admitted.

I don't know how a school could set 21 as its age limit. UoP used to do that, but they recognized that they probably didn't have a defense for it.

I graduated from USNY/Regents (the public university that was the predecessor to Excelsior) with two bachelor's degrees before I was 21.

 

Since the selfish old geezers who write the laws decided that age discrimination begins at 40.

 

How about an unemancipated minor with parental cosignature? How did all those teenage wunderkind PhDs back in that old thread on the youngest PhDs manage to do it?

 

Perhaps those schools didn't have such policies. Or, perhaps, they waived any minimum age requirements for special cases.

I think minimum age requirements for a DL school, as well as one that primarily uses assessments, is dumb. I question a 14-year-old going off to college for social reasons (his/hers as well as the other students'), not educational ones. That, largely, doesn't exist with DL schools. Who cares if some teenager gets a TESC degree by examination?

 

It is interesting that their policies should say that you must be 21 and a high school grad to apply to TESC, but community & junior college grads of any age may apply for admission. Why wouldn't a HS grad of any age be allowed to apply, since they have AA degrees in all fields?

Which of the Big Three had that teen-age AA grad whose local school district picked him up for playing hookey?

 

I would also imagine that this is a general rule and that, as we all know, there are exceptions made to most rules. In this case I'd be willing to bet that if a minor submitted some supplemental material that indicated that he was capable of working on that level, etc. then their application would be considered.
Jack