<p>I know repeating is common with prep schools, and I considered repeating the ninth grade. If you repeat, is it like your former year never existed in terms of overall GPA? Or is it all averaged in? I've been wondering this for a while.</p>
<p>I think the 9th grade completed at the prep school is the 9th grade that will be the one that “counts” when it comes to your transcript for college. I really don’t think there will be any mention of your previous 9th grade.</p>
<p>Bamagirl…</p>
<p>Why do you want to repeat? What are your reasons for repeating? which school are you planning to consider repeating?</p>
<p>I’m not repeating, but I thought about it. I’m a freshman at a public school, and I considered repeating to get the full four year boarding school experience.</p>
<p>Your previous 9th grade transcript does not have to be included unless you want it to be.</p>
<p>Bamagirl…</p>
<p>I have not head any good reason yet from you to repeat. You can get into a BS for 10th or 11th grade too. Plus there is no guaranttee you will get accepeted next year, to a specific BS you may be targeting. Repeating just to get a 4 year BS experiance is not a good reason. When you apply next year, first thing they will ask you is, “why do you want to repeat?”</p>
<p>My advice is, apply to a wider range of BS next yr for 10 grade rather then repeating. (Don’t fall in love with a specific BS, until you get accepted and enroll). There is no reason for you to repeat, if you are a good student and currently doing well at a public school. Plus if you are in a good PS, BS will not make much difference when you apply to a good college.</p>
<p>I’m not repeating. I’m going to school this fall as a new sophomore. I was just wondering.</p>
<p>I’m applying next year as a new sophomore, and I have once thought about repeating too. I thought it would be easier to get accepted and integrate into a school community as a new freshman, and that I would be more able to take advantage of the wide range of electives. After some preliminary consideration, I’ve decided not to repeat, with one of the reason being that it’d be weird if all the guys in my grade were 1 year younger. :D</p>
<p>hmm, i’ll be applying next year as a new soph, and i thought about repeating, too, mostly so the academic workload shift and social transition would probably be easier, but my parents decided against it… i’m born late in the year, but my main concern was really whether or not returning students would be nice to new ones; i’m already thousands of kilometers away from my family, so being a leper wouldn’t help imho :)</p>
<p>gl as a new sophomore!</p>
<p>Yeah, I’ve heard that new sophomores are fairly common in BS, as some day schools go to the ninth grade. So I won’t be the only one. </p>
<p>My birthday is in June, so I wouldn’t be terribly older than most of the class if I repeated. Looking back, I kind of wish I has applied as a repeat, but I definitely wouldn’t want to spend an extra year in high school!</p>
<p>^ yeah, that’s the thing… here, high school’s 5 years long, so if i repeated… 6 years?! hmmm… i’m born in september, so it’s kind of reasonable, but… knowing that all the guys were a year younger than you would be kind of strange, right? not to mention that if i met a lot of younger kids that were a million times smarter than me, my ego would be seriously bruised! right now, my excuse is “yeah well i’m born in september”. it works really well!</p>
<p>which school are you going to? some schools take barely any new sophs (cough thacher cough) so i figure there’s no point applying there anymore… :(</p>
<p>^^Barely any new sophomores? I guess I’m out of luck then <em>sigh</em> = (</p>
<p>naw, i doubt it’d hurt to apply! besides, thacher’s a small school, so perhaps the stats were skewed… honestly, i don’t want to discourage anyone D:</p>