<p>I am going to be a sophomore this coming school year, and i am considering applying to thacher for september 2010 as a junior. Is it discouraged or unheard of to enter junior year? is it significantly harder to get settled since everyone has been there for two years already?</p>
<p>I would look into repeating if that wouldn’t cause financial strain on your family. Junior year, I’ve heard, is significantly harder to get in than sophomore (this applies to most schools). I don’t think that it’ll be hard to get settled in but it’s hard to get accepted. By hard, I mean hard, not impossible (TomTheCat got in Andover as a junior but was hooked: legacy). I have no idea how admission as a junior to Thacher, specifically, will work. Good luck!</p>
<p>I tried for junior year, but was rejected. Unless you’re significantly hooked, I think it’s just a huge waste of time. I think they only accept if they have room, and since they didn’t have room, I believe she said that they didn’t accept any juniors this school year. They didn’t even send me a letter or any other notification, I had to email them to find out my decision after 2 weeks past the decision date.</p>
<p>Like any top boarding school, it’s tough (but not impossible) to be admitted as a Junior. Thacher often admits a small number each year. The right thing to do is to call the Admissions Office and discuss the likelihood, there can never be guarantees, that a few junior year slots will be available.</p>
<p>I do know that the School pays extra special attention to the potential Junior’s social skills because they know that a new Junior will have to be comfortable interacting and breaking into well formed social groups. In my son’s class, a Junior was admitted from Kentucky. He was a natural born leader, mature, funny and confident. He did really well and ended up as a head prefect of a dorm his senior year.</p>