Here is a hypothetical situation and I would love to hear what you think.
You applied 3~4 of your future dream BS as a 9th grader, and also applied to a current dream JBS as a 9th grader too. You had multiple admission offers, and ultimately chose the JBS because you want to physically mature another year before starting at a BS.
If you spend the year positively and then apply to those BS that accepted you but were turned down by you in the following year, as a 14 yo repeat 9th grader. How will you be treated? Neutrally? Favored? Disadvantaged? Traitorously?
I think you would be treated “neutrally” because you turned down their offer the first time for a good reason. You might not be treated more “favorably” than how they’d treat those graduated from JBS. You might be “disadvantaged” if you haven’t done well in the JBS compared with your JBS peers. There is no concern for being treated “traitorously” - they wouldn’t care enough to have that feeling, let’s say.
Hypothetically, I think you would be treated neutrally since you turned down the BS for a valid reason. However, I’m not sure why you would want to reapply as a repeat 9th-grader; if you performed well as a 9th grader at a JBS, you should be able to handle 10th grade at a BS.
She can probably handle 10th grade academics at any BS already. Community colleges might have low standard. But she is taking some challenging general education courses full time, and is excelling in all of them. Some of her professors are rated very low for easiness. Her U.S. History has 2000+ pages reading assignment for this semester.
It has to do with why she wants to go to JBS or BS in the first place, instead of junior transferring to a state university with her 2+ years of college credits. She wants to experience the full social life and group EC with age peers, independently from her parents. Grow. And consider what else she wants to do with her life in addition to her arts. She wants to take it slow and enjoy the process. She wants to maximize memories and happiness of her teenage years.
She also strongly wants to leave home next Fall at 13. This is her 3rd cc year and she feels quite independent and ready already.
But if it can be helped, she wants to delay the ultimate BS until she is 14 so she won’t be the youngest one in the group as she has always been. JBS could be the right buffer.
I am a little bit confused about the age but if she is 12,
couldn’t she apply to a JBS as an incoming (repeat?) 8th grade and then go to a BS for 9th-12 or attend JBS 8 & 9th then BS 10th-12?
I agree graduating a JBS as a 9th grade and then repeating 9th grade sounds unnecessary.
One can do a postgraduate year after BS if she wants to wait till 18/19 before college.
A local school child is spending a year abroad (on scholarship) withholding high school graduation (sort of gap year but in a foreign high school program) as she is young.
My child started BS at 14 years and a week and is not the youngest at BS.
There are a whole bunch of repeat freshmen here from a boys’ day school. Not sure how if that compares to a JBS.
P.S. To echo payn4ward’s comment, I have friends who don’t turn 15 till the end of October. That means they started freshman year at 13.
Well, here’s another idea (for fun, if nothing else): http://www.gradschoolhub.com/10-youngest-people-ever-to-achieve-a-doctorate-degree/. If she’s smart and has already come this far ahead, don’t waste her talent!
@payn4ward, @stargirl3 She is still 12. I know a number of very happy students started BS at 13. Starting at 14 is a her preference, but not a requirement.
@panpacific, We thought that she were going to get her BFA degree in Spatial Art at 15. She already completed all major requirements for lower grades, and can finish GE this year if she wants. But she doesn’t want that any longer. She is extremely hard working, but is not goal oriented at the moment. She wants to check out other careers before committing herself into just arts. More importantly, she wants to take it slow and enjoy her childhood. Her life, not mine.
Her Art History professor and retiree Ceramics classmates introduced and convinced her of boarding school. I was, I can’t afford it. But if you get FA, why not? And I love researching and counseling her as I have done since we started her homeschooling.
One of mine started BS at 13, one at 14. Neither had a problem. If she’s done many CC classes, I can’t really see the point of JBS. Just start BS as a slightly young Freshman. Chances are, she won’t be the only young student. Also, it would be one less transition and one less application process.
Oops. Perhaps I misread the OP. Is she already at JBS?
@CindyLWho, thanks for the points to consider. She is accepted by one JBS to start 2016 as a 9th grader. But we don’t know the FA yet so can’t be fully committed yet. 9th grade at the JBS seems as rigorous as 9th grade at many top BS