<p>I'm curious as to whether people on this board think a person who should be applying for Junior year but applies for Sophomore year would have a bigger chance than a person applying for Sophomore year normally?</p>
<p>sorry i wrote a post that had nothing to do with this at all. mis-read the question</p>
<p>Yeah im quite worried about this too… cuz im also applying to 10th grade as a 9th grader…
i guess those that are repeating a year will have a greater chance… since the admission committee would “assume” that they are more capable. … </p>
<p>I dunno… just guessing?</p>
<p>I’m repeating my sophomore year as well. I would be curious to find out about that too.</p>
<p>Honestly I would think being a repeater would hurt your chances. They’d wonder what went so wrong that you needed to spend an extra year in high school. Going forward, the school would probably be less likely to put you in advanced classes because they’d see you couldn’t handle regular classes at an (I’m assuming) less rigorous school.</p>
<p>I disagree with nyc. I think they like it when people repeat because they are more mature. Most people applying to prep schools as repeats do not choose so because they did poorly the prior year. Schools may actually encourage people to repeat for other reasons. I do not know if it would help, but I know it wouldn’t hurt an applicant.</p>
<p>Yeah I have it on good word it wont hurt. Nyc, I also disagree because the school can see your grades so they know if you “screwed up” which I’m sure is not common for many kids applying to these schools. Also, the schools really do encourage repeats. If it had not been suggested to me by the school I would not have even known. It’s also important to realize that the “repeats” don’t repeat their classes, they just enter the year below them and continue with their own curriculum. </p>
<p>And xflippx3: I think your right about the maturity but I think the fact that the student will have an extra year of classes could also help from the schools perspective of college admissions.</p>
<p>Coming from a private school I only ever met one student who had been a repeater and she was only accepted for sports. If a student does not redo those classes how to they meet requirements for graduation? The one student I knew still had to take classes that were specific to the grade level she was entering and the classes she had already taken did not count towards clearing recs.</p>
<p>I go to private school too so anyways…</p>
<p>If they don’t redo the classes they will go beyond the requirements. It’s not like the grades/course credits from the year you will be “repeating” don’t count, they still go on your transcripts and you still have credit for the year. A repeat year (at these prep schools NOT your private school) is very common and similar to taking a PG year. It really is just an extra year of high school, just since it’s not built in, one “repeats” the year by reentering the same grade level.</p>
<p>Just because some one at your school repeated her classes doesn’t mean anything about these schools. Repeating at a normal private school is much less common since there is really no reason to while at Prep schools there are many reasons. In fact, I know that people who “repeat” do not have to retake classes since I was told during my interview that I could continue with my curriculum as an 11th grader . </p>
<p>In theory, a “repeating” 10th grader would have a better chance than the average 9th grader applying. The 10th grader will have an extra year of advanced classes and will over all end up with a very impressive transcript. Also, the 10th grader would be more used to school, more mature, and have more leadership potential amongst the class. Is this true? I have no idea, but, it would make sense.</p>