<p>I know kickme, that still makes him young for his class right - turning 14 at the start of 9th grade? My son turned 14 in the middle of 8th grade and was average age. Or did I do the math wrong?</p>
<p>no, that's correct. but 14 in 9th grade is, while on the younger side, is nowhere near the youngest. here a lot of October, Novembers, and even Decembers are of 94, so Septembers are in the 40% category of being the"youngest"
and the username is very misleading because rarely do we girls say please (joke :P bad one), but hotchkiss_please is a she lol</p>
<p>it's nice to be in the middle though. you "respect" half and you "tease" half. :D</p>
<p>Hotchkissplease,
My son is a repeater. When he applied, he put his current year as ninth and checked of ninth on the application for year entering. He sent his transcripts and listed info from 7th-9th grades. He is not re-doing anything. He is taking honors alg II, physics, and Honors Sp. II this year at bs. He is taking the freshman humanities, but that is not really a repeat of his first time around in freshman English. All of the readings/assignments are different and there is the other "half" of the humanities program (intro to religous studies at his school) which he did not have in his public 9th grade. The age difference has not been a factor at all; he has friends of all ages and many of his freshman classmates are repeaters as well.</p>
<p>keylyme, is the school that you are talking about NMH?
I was waitlisted there :(
Oh, so your son kinda has the title of "freshman" but he isn't relearning any information?
Is he learning the same things as the sophmores (with the exception of the humanities class)??
Hmm...</p>
<p>Thanks :)</p>
<p>Yes, it's NMH, but most of the preps to the repeat thing. He took placement exams over the summer for language and math and is in classes according to those results, as well as his performance in his prior ninth grade year. He took Spanish I and II in public school, and did Honors Spanish II (our choice, he could have been in Honors III, but I knew from my older son's experiece how much more rigorous the coursework is at NMH compared to our local public). He had already done Honors Alg I, Geometry, and Honors Alg II in public school and is doing the Alg II again because he did have problems with that in his public school. There is a combination of some freshman, mostly sophomores in math and physics, and a mix in the language class as well. So, he won't have to take geometry again and will go to Honors PreCal next year. His public school first year science was "Honors Earth Science". NMH does not have a required course like that, so my son will take biology, which is a normal sophomore class anyway. You shouldn't have to repeat as long as your grades were good (A) in your public school and the placement exam goes well. Sometimes, though, I think the preps do realize their courses are more rigorous. For example, my older son had taken high school French I in 8th grade and did get all A's. Still, NMH, wanted him to do French I again. It was a very different experience and a more difficult course at NMH, so he was glad he did that rather than try to do French II.</p>
<p>First, sorry about the mistake in male/female.</p>
<p>Second, she said her birthday is in September of 1994 and is currently in 8th grade. That would mean she will be turning 14 in September of her 9th grade year. That is young, not youngest, but yes, young. The majority of kids - and ALL kids in public schools in Massachusetts - turn 14 BEFORE they start 9th grade. The law varies from state to state. I do know that the Jr Prep school my kids attend would absolutely recommend to repeat if that was the birthday.</p>
<p>As Keyleme (and I beleive I did too) said, you will not be taking the same info. You might read the same books in English, but that might happen anyway changing schools, not necessarily due to repeating grades. I know that some schools read books in 9th grade and others read them in 10th, so that would happen as well.</p>
<p>lol debating over a person's age XD
yep, I was saying that being 14 during your 9th grade year was young, but not that young.
...
OH. I get your point. I misunderstood at first and we kept trying to clarify things we already knew LOL sorry :O anyways, like linda said, 14 in 9th grade is quite young, but it's not a death penalty for "GET HELD BACK. NOW." and usually being 15 is more of the norm.
Then again, being born in september is the most wonderful thing that can happen to you. It's like being born in California. It's BEAUTIFUL :D
And I did both. So HA :D
haha jk but I am a cali at heart</p>
<p>Exactly, it's young, but as I said to hellosunshine, you'll find kids your same age, a year older AND some 2 years older. Going to boarding school, you should not feel like you are "staying back" like it used to be called in elementary school. It really isn't "repeating" anything.</p>
<p>Yeah, that's what I was thinking...
I'm not sure though.
:P
Thanks for your help, everyone, but I think I just really need to think about it.
:)
It's good to know that I am young, I guess, that gives me a lot of comfort in my decision, because I know I wont be ostracized for my age. Acutally, there are 3 kids in my class who share my birthday, except one is exactly one year older than me :P</p>
<p>I just want to make the right decision, but I do not want it to be too hard to get in.
Is it a lot harder to get in as a sophmore?</p>
<p>And kickme- I lived in New Jersey for 12 years :D</p>
<p>There has been a lot of discussions about admissions as a 9th grader vs. 10th grader. I think the admissions rate is about the same at most schools for both 9th and 10th grades.<br>
A couple of my son's friends applied to repeat at a couple of schools and as 10th graders at a couple. You could have that conversation with admissions in the interview and see what they say.</p>
<p>My friend's mom's words in the most unbelievable asian/???? accent you'll ever hear in your LIFE
"Do you... know... how... HARRRRDD that is?!... To get... into... 10th!... grade?! 9th grade... is... hard eno-ugh!..."</p>
<p>no offense to the mommy :O That's just kind of how she paused and everything.</p>
<p>Personally, I don't think so. Depending on what school you're applying to, 10th grade could be a breeze to get into (but this is VERY rare, and you're probably not looking at a TSAO or ISL. possible, but not really)
10th grade's probably around the same. I think it'd just be better financially, because of course the private schools we go to are VERY good at asking for some extra cash.</p>
<p>hotchkissplease...
california rocks. end of story. :D</p>
<p>Yeah, I think it would be better to ask the school.
That's a great idea, actually, to apply as half half :)
I will think about that, thank you.</p>
<p>Kickme, how can you stand the heat? or live without SNOW?
:D</p>
<p>korea's worse. LA might be really hot, but I used to live around the palo alto area, where summer is breeezeehhh :D kind of hot, but not really
WE HAD SNOW IN CALI. For like the first time in 30 years el oh el.</p>
<p>Hotchkiss, I don't know where you are located, but I could live without the 1-2 feet of snow still in my yard. Snow is pretty, but it should be gone in April!</p>
<p>Hahah
Korea has no snow.
And when it does, the snow here falls black, not white, because of the pollution.
D:
But I would love some WHITE snow.</p>
<p>Hah keyleme, once, in New York, it was the middle of July, and there was hail coming down the size of baseballs :O</p>
<p>WOW</p>
<p>I've neve seen real snow either....
Does it snow in NC?</p>
<p>I live near palo alto!!!!!!!!
California owns all of you new englanders!</p>
<p>^ Amen To That!</p>