<p>in my common application additional information section? it was first grade, so it's not like it's a big deal (aww yeah I knew all my colors and shapes), but it does explain why I'm like ~a year younger (at 16) than most seniors my grade. I already have some leftover courses/honors/EC's that I'm listing in the additional information so I could just add a sentence at the end. quirky or completely irrelevant?</p>
<p>edit: aaand this should be in the common application forum sorry</p>
<p>If you want to mention it I guess you could, but honestly I don’t know if it matters that much. lol At least I’m hoping it doesn’t given I didn’t say I skipped the fourth grade!</p>
<p>Someone else might be more helpful, but from my perspective it probably isn’t that big of a deal.</p>
<p>Skipping a grade is not uncommon, and since it didn’t have an affect on your HS academics, I wouldn’t bother with it.</p>
<p>You can if you wish (I personally also skipped a grade and graduated from HS at age 16), but it won’t make much of a difference in terms of admissions.</p>
<p>DD skipped a grade and graduated HS at 16, and being born very late in the academic year was typically the youngest in his class. I think the reference he made to it related to how it affected his behavior and demeanor with older peers and adults rather than the “accomplishment” of skipping 4th grade; eg., seeing every day that people one/two years older than him in his class weren’t necessarily better than him made him question whether someone 20 or 40 years older than him was necessarily his superior in specific areas. It led him, for example, to play chess in more adult tournaments than scholastic ones, and generally made him grow up faster.
PS - he ended up in a school that has a track record of admitting younger students and found younger peers than him.</p>