<p>i should be in 10th grade but im a 9th grader, because i did kindergarten 2 time to make everything good, i didn't fail. should i skip a grade or keep going life as is, how will colleges view this, will it affect how people look at me in the future,</p>
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<p>Keep going at your level (don’t try to skip). A lot of kids in my area repeat Kindergarten (or even 1st or 2nd grade). Its not a big deal. Also, a lot of kids are held back a year before even starting kindergarten if their parents don’t think they are ready. Most people won’t even know unless you tell them and certainly college admissions officers won’t know.</p>
<p>Just stay on your current track, it won’t come up in the admissions process.</p>
<p>well if you connect this to college, you will be able to buy your friends alcohol since youll be turning 21 first.
everyone will want to be your friend</p>
<p>Wow you might want to beef up EC to make up for how kindergarten looks on your transcript.</p>
<p>^I agree, you might need a perfect score in your subject tests to even make it in your local community college.</p>
<p>No one will even know during the admissions process, and if they did, I highly doubt they would care.</p>
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They’d be able to tell from the OP’s date of birth if they bothered to look that closely, but I don’t think they’d care either way. </p>
<p>OP, at this point skipping a grade would hurt you a lot more than being a year older than your peers would. You wouldn’t have as much time to prepare yourself for college admissions.</p>
<p>Ignore the sarcastic jokers. It should have absolutely no negative effect for you to be a year older than many of your classmates. It is quite common, for example, for parents of children who are just barely old enough for kindergarten to wait until the next year to start their child in K. It is also quite common for some high school students to take a gap year before college.</p>
<p>What matters most is your transcript and having the high school diploma. And trying to skip ahead a grade at your age could be disastrous to both.</p>
<p>There is no stigma to being 19 as a freshman, but there will definitely be an admissions stigma to having a possible semester of nothing but Cs and Ds as you struggle to keep up after skipping a year of essential classes that would have prepared you for the 10th-grade-level work. </p>
<p>Don’t do it. Stay where you are. Enjoy your life and your friends, and work hard in your classes every year of high school. The best thing you can do now is finish strong at the pace you have already set.</p>
<p>Is it common in your area to finish school in three years?</p>
<p>It’s fairly common in South Carolina and is pretty easy to do with block scheduling. If you’re interested in going to a big state school, then it’s not necessarily a bad option.</p>
<p>I think it can be really frustrating to be 19 years old in high school with students who are barely 14, so I could see why you’d want to.</p>
<p>As for the future, no one will care. You’ll be going off to college with your peers. It isn’t a big deal either way. Do whatever you would like and what’s best for you.</p>
<p>College admissions officers will not care, whatsoever, as to how you performed in Kindergarten. Your age will not be taken into consideration and even if it is, I highly doubt (I am near positive) that it won’t be any type of detriment to your application. </p>
<p>My younger sister started school a year late because of a weird date system in terms of how old you have to be before a deadline in order to start Kindergarten - so she was 6 in Kindergarten and she’s going to graduate at 19 - there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it.</p>
<p>I agree with mostly everyone has said but also you should ask yourself what are the benefits of skipping grade just because you are the oldest in your class? I mean I stayed back in 2nd grade not because I failed and it as I think doesn’t make any sense to try skipping a grade at this age. If you have an issue simply graduate early.</p>
<p>iirc they neither no nor care whether you repeated a year, as long as it was before high school started.</p>