<p>Has anyone here ever skipped a grade? The new school i'm looking at has different credit requirements than the homeschooling program I was using, and i'm trying to figure out how I could skip ahead a year. I'm going back to school for more challenging classes as it is, so i'd really like to do this...</p>
<p>If you have any info that would be great.</p>
<p>i am planning to graduate early..and what you can do is take online courses, or summer school...</p>
<p>I'm taking online courses right now. The things i'm behind in are religious classes basically, and I think some electives.</p>
<p>If I went to a summer program and got 4 college credits, could that transfer onto my high school transcript as some kind of dual enrollment?</p>
<p>No, I haven't, but in 7th grade a guy in our class was asked to. He refused because the people in the class above us were, to put it lightly, awful. He's ridiculously smart, though.</p>
<p>My little brother did. Now he'll be a freshman in August.</p>
<p>Was it really difficult to skip ahead, and do you know what tests he used to show that he should skip a grade?</p>
<p>Well we moved across the country and my mom just stuck him in the grade higher than he would have been. (he skipped 7th grade). She said she homeschooled him for 7th grade, and no one ever asked for confirmation or anything. He had absolutely no problem socially or academically. (He was always the oldest in his class, and now he's a few months younger than the average in his class)</p>
<p>Seriously? You can just get put up in a grade higher than you're supposed to be?</p>
<p>I wonder if that would work at a non religious school, where this whole religion requirement is really holding me back.</p>
<p>Skipping grades becomes a lot harder the older you are. If you skip second grade it's not a big deal but if you skip a year of high school you have to get a lot of requirements out of the way etc.</p>
<p>i know a few people who skipped second grade but was held back in sixth..haha.</p>
<p>^ lolz .</p>
<p>my brother doesn't go to a religious school. it is a pretty big public though. the office people didn't seem to care about his previous coursework.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>i know a few people who skipped second grade but was held back in sixth..haha.</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Yeah, well I personally went into kindergarten a year early, then skipped to eighth grade in the middle of third grade, then retook eighth grade, then moved back to sixth grade, then retook sixth grade again, then went through middle and high school, then skipped senior year, then took a year off from college. Beat that :p
I ended up being one year ahead in the end. Unless I flame again.</p>
<p>Lol fizix2, I had to read that a couple times.</p>
<p>They're being really picky about what they do and don't accept. I'm also behind in some academic courses I guess, because I skipped a couple basic english classes and took more difficult ones. Blah my school records are way messed up.</p>
<p>A girl in my kindergarten class skipped to second grade. Then she failed it, so basically she was right back where she should have been. </p>
<p>Im graduating a year early. It's really not that difficult and its not like I'd been planning it for a while. I decided to do so at the very end of my sophomore year.</p>
<p>I'm wondering if maybe I could just take the final for the two english classes I skipped or something? I don't need to repeat them...I skipped them for a reason. Maybe I could self study some of it if I have to or something.</p>
<p>Could the SAT or ACT count as a sort of placement test? I cannot handle another year in high school, I really want to graduate on time.</p>
<p>Don't. Just don't. I know someone who was on the same level (academically) as me back in middle school. He skipped; I didn't. I think it ended up hurting him because he was not prepared as well (mentally) for HS (he ended up getting rejected from many top schools)...it also didn't help that he transferred to an ultra-competitive science school and essentially became just "another student at XX High."</p>
<p>Besides, more grades = more time to do cool stuff anyway (as in, things only HS students or below are eligible for)...why do you want to rush into college?</p>
<p>Grade skipping does nothing for increasing your odds of being accepted at a top college. I would like to find the stats on grade skipping and four year completion rate. I wonder how many of these younger entrances take longer to finish college because of a lack of sufficient emotional development? </p>
<p>Grade skipping might be useful under the following circumstances: the high school environment is completely intolerable and the student would benefit from leaving sooner, the student's family situation is problematic and leaving would reduce stress, the student is passionate about a particular interest and would be served well by progressing on to a college setting in order to focus on that interest (if the high school is unable to accommodate the student taking classes at the local college) or the individual is interested in taking a gap year before continuing on with college.</p>
<p>"the student's family situation is problematic and leaving would reduce stress"
Ha, that sounds like me. Big reason for wanting to graduate. I really want to move out ASAP.</p>
<p>The thing is, it's not like i'm missing a ton of material. I'm supposed to graduate in 2009. The high school I went to for freshman year actually required more credits than this one, but when I switched to homeschooling I followed something different. I'm not having trouble in any classes, I actually want to go back to take more challenging classes. Right now i'm not even worried about getting into a top college. I just want to be done and out of there as fast as possible.</p>
<p>I skipped 10th grade just because my school said they would have nothing for me to take senior year that wouldn't look like fluff to the colleges. I think it ended up helping me because my grades were pretty bad throughout HS, and my circumstances made the admissions officers take another look at my app, and maybe take more note of my accelerated course load (I took AP Physics B freshman year, Calc BC junior year (what would have been soph), and accelerated a year in everything else). </p>
<p>I will be attending Duke this fall after having a cumulative 3.44 high school GPA.</p>