<p>This coming year, I will be a junior in public high school.
I see you guys talk about repeating years when you go to boarding school here a lot.
Is it really as common as you guys make it out to be?
I'm considering applying to boarding schools as a repeat junior for fall of 2010 to take advantage of the superior academics boarding school provides.
I'm already one of the oldest in my class though, and I wouldn't want it to be weird going into my junior year at 17.
Opinions?</p>
<p>boys do it all the time. i think SPS said in a nytimes article that approximately 30 % of their students repeat. not so sure about the girls though.</p>
<p>Repeating a year is very common at b-schools. Very few schools accept one-year-seniors (as in one-year-seniors coming straight from 11th grade, not PGs who have already graduated), and it’s difficult to be a one-year-senior, too.</p>
<p>thanks! I wouldn’t want to be a one year senior. If I don’t get into my school of choice with enough FA, then I will just stay at my public high school.</p>
<p>Very common. My son turned 17 in March and just started his junior year (he was a repeat freshman). He knows so many other kids at his school who have repeated a year.</p>
<p>Yup, repeats are pretty common at boarding school for one reason or another.</p>
<p>It depends on how prepared you are for the BS level of education.</p>
<p>At my lower ranked BS, most of those that repeat are from overseas and they want to adapt more easily to the English environment first.</p>
<p>The downside of repeating a year is that you have to pay for an addtional year. That should be an issue even for people who are on partial FA, but it rarely comes up - guess many people are too rich to care? ;)</p>
<p>do girls that repeat seem much too old compared to the boys in the class?</p>
<p>There’s no stigma attached to repeating.</p>
<p>@catg: Definitely not. There are several girls in the class below me that are older than me. I can never tell unless they tell me though. It’s high school, not elementary school. Many girls have stopped growing by sophomore/junior years.</p>