<p>I am applying for junior (08-09), and I will turn 19 years old after the first semester of my junior year. Life is not fair, why those 40 and 50 years old folks can go to college, but I can't even have a boarding school experience? Because I am two years older than the normal kids, the admission officers I contacted look down on me and discouraged me in the e-mal:"this will never happen in a prep school..."</p>
<p>Dcheng, what about finding a small, nurturing college that will give you a similar experience to boarding school? I know there are such things as "junior colleges"- they are residential, not like community college, and you go there for two years. My daughter is a junior and is 15 (turns 16 this month.) 19 is really too old to be a junior in high school.</p>
<p>Are you allowed to to do a senior, then a PG year at the same school? That could be an option, and there have to be plenty of seniors who are turning 19 because of all the freshman and junior repeats.</p>
<p>try simons rock college of bard,its similar to prep school but its college.And it sounds like you would fit in</p>
<p>The problem with simons rock college and other programs that accept students that haven't graduated high school into a college program is that they are intended for students who have the opposite problem as dcheng does -- they are specifically set up for younger kids (ages 12-16, usually) who are ready for college work. </p>
<p>from dcheng's posts, it sounds like he will turn 19 as a junior and still needs the high school level work. the majority of kids in the US will turn 19 while a freshman in college.</p>
<p>I think you need to look at local options -- perhaps adding in community college courses to your current school.</p>
<p>dcheng, have you looked in to Winchendon or Gould Academy?</p>
<p>I don't know of any schools except Interlochen that allow seniors to remain as PGs. Most PGs come from other schools.</p>