<p>Are you the youngest or oldest in your grade at school?
If not (I'm suspecting the majority will be not) which are you closest to?
For me, if things continue to go at this rate, I will graduate at 17 yrs old and most probably enter college at 17. A while ago my mom told me it's okay to get into college later on, I'm not sure what she meant by that, though I'm thinking that since I'm old enough to be class of '14, I can have a gap year if I don't feel ready for college.
I also heard that the recommended age to start IB is when you are at least the age of 16, not sure if that's true though. I've heard of somebody who graduated from IB and when to Cambridge when he was 15, so I guess it doesn't really matter.</p>
<p>PS. This may or may not be one of my procrastination threads :P</p>
<p>I think I’m the third youngest in my class. I will also start college at 17. But about the IB classes, I think you’re mental capacity is probably at least equal to your peers. I find that people usually act the age all of their friends are than the age they actually are(ex-people who’ve been held back usually act like the grade their in). And I think you may even act older than the people in your grade. I know I do for sure.</p>
<p>I’m one of the youngest (I’ll turn 18 two weeks before graduation). But I’m also ranked #1 in my class of 565, so age has nothing to do with anything!</p>
<p>I read a study somewhere that suggested there was a slight correlation between age relative to peers and personal success. I don’t think that that was the primary focus of the argument, but I do remember the author citing examples that little league players older, by even just a few months, than their teammates had a higher average level of personal success (the author went on to suggest that this may be due to a higher level of physical development, a need to feel “better” due to being older, etc.). However, it might also have gone on (this might be coming from another study or article or something I read some time ago) suggesting that younger students were more likely to succeed in the classroom.</p>
<p>Then there was that Reader’s Digest article that claimed that students with first names starting with ‘A’ or ‘B’ were more likely to do well than students with names starting with ‘D’ or ‘F.’ I don’t know how much I trust their studies, though lol.</p>
<p>I’m one of the youngest in my grade. There are three of us who share a birthday and there are maybe two or three people who have birthdays after ours. I’ll be seventeen at graduation. A week or so before I head off to college, I’ll turn eighteen.</p>
<p>But there’s a senior who is still fifteen at my school.</p>
<p>I’m on the older side, though def not the oldest. I used to be right in the middle, but then I switched from private school to public school and I think they have different cut-offs b/c the people currently in my class are much younger.</p>
<p>^ I used to be one of the oldest back in elementary school, and I couldn’t even speak English back then. Fortunately I wasn’t that self-conscious and nobody gave me any crap so I didn’t obsess over it.
It seems most people here are more young than old. Two of my friends who are one of the oldest at my school seem to be more mature than the rest of us though, although they’re involved in the fun, they seem to have taken on the older sister figure.</p>
<p>^ What’s it like being the oldest? In my country the legal age is 18 so you would be able to go to bars and buy booze but your friends wouldn’t.</p>
<p>Being older doesn’t really feel that much different. I got to vote in this election. and I can buy porn and lotto tickets and cigarettes and dry ice but none of those really interest me.</p>
<p>Here in America we have to be 21 to buy alcohol.</p>
i turn 18 late Spring of my freshman year in college</p>