<p>Do PG years at top boarding schools accept students from other boarding schools? Are athletes eligible to play as PGs?</p>
<p>Typically yes and yes.</p>
<p>Yep, Sure and Yep!</p>
<p>The main reason for the PG year is pretty much athletic development or NCAA eligibility. You can't stay at the same bs for a PG year; you have to go to a different school. I know of more than one from our school who has transferred to another bs to do a PG year.</p>
<p>I know a student who did an extra year at the same school - his parents called it a PG year, not sure how the school classified it, but he did go on and is playing hockey at an Ivy now.</p>
<p>Linda S is right...it's rare to stay at the same school, but there is no rule against it and I've seen it work out quite welll for two kids I know.</p>
<p>Oh....I didn't realize that. My older son told me you had to change schools, but maybe that's just NMH or maybe he was wrong.</p>
<p>I think it's extremely unusual to essentially repeat your senior year at the same school. More frequently you will see kids getting that extra year at the same school by repeating in sophomore or junior year, although this can be a bit tricky if your grades aren't bad enough to justify it!!</p>
<p>It is unusual, but it happens. Personally, I think it's a little odd but it did work in the cases I'm aware of.</p>
<p>I believe changing school requirements have to do with what athletic league the school participates in. Some will not allow PGs at the school they graduated 12th grade from. Some leagues will.</p>
<p>Not all repeats are athletes, though. Some kids just need a little more time to mature and want to improve their academic standing.</p>
<p>Obviously the schools where this occured were ones that allowed PG's.</p>
<p>The vast majority of PG's are boys and athletes. Just a fact.</p>
<p>I don't know if the hockey player boy I'm talking about "technically" did a PG year at the same school or if they had this plan in place a year or two prior and he repeated another grade. He did not have bad grades, so I'm certain if he "repeated" a year that he didn't repeat the same classes. It was purely for athletic purposes. As I said, he is know playing hockey (and had an amazing first year) at an Ivy.</p>
<p>I don't think its all that unusual to reclassify as a junior. My son knew several kids who did it when he was at bs and my current son knows of at least two. It was for athletic reasons in all cases. We were going to do it with my daughter in public school....we discussed it with her guidance counselor and they said that, while it was rare, they did not expect we would have any problems getting it okay'd. It also had to do with athletics and an injury set-back. She ended up being recruited anyway, so it was not necessary.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the help. So the PG year isn't just for non prep school students trying to get a year of prep school?</p>
<p>No, I don't think it's usually that at all.</p>