<p>What is the average age of a freshman in college?</p>
<p>18 is considered "the norm" in the US. If you factor in the increasing population of nontraditional students, the average is probably somewhat higher.</p>
<p>So it would be ok to be 19?</p>
<p>My brother's a 19-year-old freshman. As far as I know, nobody has said anything about it, so it's likely that no one cares. :P</p>
<p>18 or 19 is the norm coming straight from high school, though with more kids taking a gap year, there are some freshmen who are 20 or older</p>
<p>18.</p>
<p>Normally 19 for internationals with 13 years of schooling.</p>
<p>I am 18 and I am a freshman but most of the kids I have met are 19.... Weird.</p>
<p>Most kids start off freshman year at 18, but turn 19 before they start sophomore year</p>
<p>A lot of kids start off freshman year at 17 (those with fall & early winter birthdays); many start at 18 or 19. Kids who take a "gap year" or defer admissions start at 19 or 20.</p>
<p>Most school districts around here have a cutoff of Aug 31 to enter school, and parents of kids born in the summer, especially boys, keep them out a year more. So there are a lot of kids who will be 19 before they hit college.</p>
<p>i have a friend who skipped a grade and is a 15 year old junior she will be 1 17 year old freshmen, 18 year old sophmore, etc . . .</p>
<p>why does it matter how old you are?</p>
<p>I'll be 17 (skipped a grade)</p>
<p>My goodness. Anyone between 17 and 20 is likely to do just fine in a typical freshman situation (freshman dorm, freshman classes). If you are under 17 or over 20 you might feel somewhat uncomfortable in an all-freshman dorm. At my undergrad college, some of us freshmen were in a dorm with about a dozen law students from out of state who had chosen to live in a dorm; anyone between 17 and 27 would have been fine, and had like-aged friends, on my freshman floor. At the beginning of the year, my two roommates and I were 18, 18 and 19; by the end of the year, 19, 19, and 20. (One had transferred in after a year spent elsewhere.)</p>
<p>I will be 17 when I enter college, but will turn 18 in October.</p>
<p>And if you go to a large university you will find freshman of all ages. It doesn't denote an age, only that it is your first year of college.</p>
<p>I am 16 when i was a freshman college student…</p>
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