<p>What does being a year older than the majority of the freshmen at college mean (being older than all the students who just finished HS and came to college), would that make you feel uncomfortable because they are younger?
Also, does age difference come as an issue when your friend and you have a year age difference and one of you are 21 and can go to bars and get alcohol, but the other cannot?</p>
<p>It didn’t matter for me. I’m not in your exact situation, I was a year younger than everyone else but no one ever noticed or cared. Because you’re all experiencing the same thing, one year won’t make a difference.</p>
<p>As for the age difference, my best friend who i just met is about 3 years older then me. And honestly I loved having friends over 21, they just bought the alcohol for me!</p>
<p>Nobody cares about your age in college. Kids rarely graduate in 4 years, anyway and it’s not like Highschool. It’s highly unlikely you’ll stick to your class for friends, anyway, and most of your classes will have kids from all levels: seniors and firstyears and inbetween…You can’t think about college like high school. Nobody’s even going to ask you your age.</p>
<p>I’m 27, turn 28 this summer. I just started back at college (it didn’t work out the first few times but things are awesome now). In my math classes I believe I’ve been the oldest student by a good five years or so. In the one physics class I’ve taken so far there were people younger than me but I’d say most were actually older than me (it was a hybrid class with online learning and on-site labs, so I guess everybody else was a working adult like me). But I commute, and haven’t plugged into the social scene (it’s a community college). Students of all types come here. Large schools in big cities probably have a lot more older students, it’s probably the residential colleges in smaller towns where everybody lives in a dorm that older students are much more rare.</p>