<p>We are exhausted by our public high school experience and are contemplating transferring our student to a private school. Does anyone have any experience with repeating a high school year?</p>
<p>How do colleges view this?</p>
<p>I assume the year being repeated stays on the transcript, but how does GPA get affected?</p>
<p>Is there a stigma associated with this type of transfer.</p>
<p>Thank you for your thoughts.</p>
<p>I do not understand..why would you redo a year?</p>
<p>two part answer ... first, we feel the school has not done a very good job preparing our student for college (our student bears some of that responsibility, GPA has dropped over the past two years), and second, our student is also an athlete who recently tore an ACL and will miss this entire summer's recruitment camps and tournaments</p>
<p>An opportunity to improve academically and heal physically could be the difference between an average school to a very good school</p>
<p>this is not uncommon when kids transfer to a boarding school --so it might also be common for private schools. And it is generally done for exactly the reasons you state -- academic readiness (they usually do a 5th year of boarding school for athletic reasons).</p>
<p>each school would do the GPA differently -- so you have to ask them. another question to ask is about class rank.</p>
<p>what grade is your son currently in?</p>
<p>Jr ... are you thinking about certain consequences?</p>
<p>i'm an internaitonal student, and when I transferred to the US to a private boarding school, i repeated sophomroe year b/c I wanted to take harder classes. Is that ok? Will college view it negatively in anyway? (or I can just say English isn't my first language so I ahve certain difficulties :P)</p>
<p>If you have a valid reason -- I don't think it will be a problem. Where you might run into problems is if the school ranks and the result of transferring in is a much lower rank and/or GPA than if he stayed at the school. </p>
<p>If your son isn't looking at Ivies, it might not be an issue. some states have class rank as a requirement for guaranteed admissions.</p>
<p>My son will be repeating junior year -- he is transferring to an international boarding school with the IB diploma, so it is a 2 year program. Most kids transferring there repeat junior year.</p>
<p>I would sit down with the college counseling office at the new school and ask how they will figure rank and GPA with the courses transferred in and a repeated junior year.</p>
<p>thanks hsmomstef, your perspective is encouraging and we obviously have a lot of work to do in terms of contacting schools admissions offices to determine their perspective ...</p>
<p>Still hoping others weigh in with their experience of repeating a year via transfer to a private school.</p>
<p>Has anyone heard of a school "re-classificying" a student that wishes to repeat a year ... the term came up last week in corrsespondence I had with a school representative ... before I go back with questions, I wanted to check to see if anyone had experience with this procees.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Many private schools have the policy of dropping students back a grade, or recommend it. I was homeschooled in "ninth grade" and didn't really accomplish much. I had been homeschooled because I was badly injured during my eighth grade year and couldn't go to school. In this sitaution in my county, the county was required to send me tutors in my core subjects each day until I could return to a normal school routine. However, that would require a parent at home all day, five days a week, so we couldn't do it. </p>
<p>So, when I was better, I applied to a great local private school and was accepeted as a sophomore. My school's admission proces starts very early, so I had not completed my homeschooled ninth grade year; I wasn't even half-way through in some subjects. The new school gave me the option of entering as a sophomore but taking two extra classes outside school (so I would be in Spanish I and II and Algebra I and Geometry at the same time). That would have lowered my GPA and caused extreme stress (how does one survive Spanish II having not taken Spanish I?). I dropped back into freshman year, but I was NOT happy about it.</p>
<p>It has all worked out for the best, of course. :) My situation is a bit unique: because of the details and the circumstances, my homeschooled ninth grade year counts for nothing; it never happened. It's not figured into my GPA and it doesn't go on my transcripts, and I didn't repeat a grade. You son's situation is different because of his grade level, but I would still recommend repeating a year if the school is significantly more difficult than what he is used to. He will not be the only one in his grade that is a year older, unless it is a tiny school.</p>
<p>Glad things worked out for you Carpe Aeternum. Appreciate your insights ... does anyone else have any experience with admissions offices and this issue?</p>