<p>Is there any examples of kids who are 16 and turning 17 in their freshman year?</p>
<p>I guess that would be possible if you were older when you started school. Let's say you had an August birthday and the school cut-off date was September (as it is where I live). If you opted to wait a year to start your child in kindergarten then fast-forward to hs and opt to "re-fresh", then I guess you would be in that situation.</p>
<p>i know a lacrosse player who repeated freshman year when he went to taft, did a PG year at hotchkiss, and then doing another PG year at deerfield now. So, that's repeating 3 years</p>
<p>we lived in Indiana when my son started Kindergarten and at the time,they had the earliest cut-off date for attending public school -- June 30th. My son turned 5 in July, so he was 6 when he started Kindergarten. We did not hold him back and he did not repeat a grade -- and he will have just turned 15 the summer before he enters 9th grade. he is by far the oldest in his class (we now live in Colorado) right now -- and when he is in groups that are sorted according to grade (like summer programs, ECs, church groups) he is so much older than most of the other kids that it is very obvious -- he tends to push the limits and get involved in activities where he can be with kids his age -- but a grade above. It hasn't been much of an issue -- but he is clearly a leader and I think that it is partially due to his age.</p>
<p>If you are older for your grade -- like my son -- I would think twice about repeating a year unless you have very valid reasons. The age difference will be tremendous (a year more than my son experiences now) and as you go through high school, you will find that many scholarships, summer programs, study abroad programs, etc have age cut-offs. I did some research on this since my older son will be repeating his junior year due to a special program. If you turn 16 before entering 9th grade -- you will be 19 before entering 12th grade and potentially turning 20 in your senior year of high school. </p>
<p>If you have a valid reason for this being the case, then I think it would be alright -- you would just have to deal with the age differences and pay attention to any age requirements for programs. To me, a valid reason would be: a student from another country that needed an additional year for language and subject matter knowledge, a student that has experienced a significant difficulty prior to high school (homeless during middle school, etc), a student who spent a year doing a study abroad and wants to do 4 years of high school in the US.</p>
<p>I haven't encountered a kid 16-going-on-17 here, no.</p>
<p>When I asked about my age being appropriate (14) on another website for prep schools, a couple of people said that the freshman ages at Andover range from 13 to 16. Dont know for sure though, could have been a while ago</p>
<p>Not really, no...but I'm sure it's possible.</p>
<p>Hi. I am also fresh - in your age. I repeated one year because I chose a wrong school. I think that does not matter you are older. You in America start school at age of 6 and end at 18 or 19, dont you? Your age is than ok. Everything depends on your abilities.</p>
<p>Yeah, I do. </p>
<p>When I was in 4th grade, this girl and her sister were adopted from a foreign country. They took some English lessons there and can speak it. The older one, who was 11 years old, was put into my class, and her younger sister, who was going-on-10, was put into 3rd grade. </p>
<p>I'm a freshman now. As is the aforementioned student (she didn't skip any grades within these years) - she's 16 now.</p>
<p>im going to a boarding school right now in CT. Would it be bad to repeat my senior year in high school to pad my grades and save some money up for college?</p>
<p>Why don't you go somewhere as a PG?</p>