<p>I read sites and some say skipping grades are good for kids because they have a challenge in academics and learn to seek challenges. But others say skipping grades cause social problems ,causes people to take advantage of the person, schools don't like it when kids skip (ie:college), etc. </p>
<p>I skipped grades but I did not have a problem at all socially or academically. People believed I was always older than I really was and not because of how old I LOOKED but how I talked and acted. I got accepted into college with ease and even got a couple scholarships from the school. I wanted to skip and presuade my parents into let me skip because of what I believe I needed to do.(Knowing what I needed started in like K) Every one I meet thinks I am so smart but I think I just learn fast and just achieve what ever I have in mind. I have the ability to learn fast and know how to get to where I want to be. </p>
<p>Do you think skipping grades is good or bad for some one trying to get into college? Does it affect them in a positive or negative way? Also, did you ever skip a grade? (When?) If so, did it have a positive or negative effect on you?</p>
<p>There’s no significant difference. In fact you could argue that it would hurt you because you would be among older students who tend to be reluctant to allow younger students to hold more ‘powerful’ leadership positions. However, on the other hand you could say that if you can match the top people in the class being a younger student, with some convincing essays you could turn the entire situation to be advantageous to you.</p>
<p>So basically, if you’re a dedicated, passionate student its effects on skipping a grade on colleges are negligible IMO.</p>
<p>Yea! I guess it depends on who it is and who is deciding if skipping is good or bad. Very great post…
I still want to know other positions on skipping.</p>
<p>I was 15 when I started college recently and people thought I was 18.(the age most people are.) I do not look like 18 by far and they said I act so mature then most of their friends and siblings.</p>
<p>You have made the point == it should be neutral_- if skipping a grade(s) is the correct move for a particular student the student will be able to handle it without neurosis or stress. My son was skipped [ast 1rst grade; we didn’t even mention to the college and the other students were completely unaware. Skipping a grade should not be done to impress a potential college.</p>
<p>I skipped first grade :D</p>
<p>I personally don’t think skipping grades is bad. Like you, people in my grade don’t notice at first that I’m about 2 years younger than them. It’s not until one of my friends makes an age joke 
about how I’m so young that others find out and then they’re surprised. I have another friend in my grade who also skipped a grade and it’s the same for her too. Ironically, we’re both #1 and 2 in our class :)</p>
<p>I think it’s a good thing because it’s better to challenge a kid rather than let them basically sit and do nothing for a year.</p>
<p>I don’t see how a couple years age difference can really affect someone that negatively. Why would colleges look down on that? However, if you were like 12 when you started college, then maybe that’s a little different…</p>
<p>I see your point. I don’t know any one who started when they were 15 but reading these sites…no wonder! The laws states have saying you can only skip if you do this, this , this, this and this. Who would want to put a kid through a total mess to skip a grade. It would be troubling to skip 1 grade but I think it would be worth it. I guess colleges sometimes think that young is immature or something. I don’t think so.</p>
<p>A classmate of one of my children had been homeschooled and then when she enrolled in school, she was placed two grades above where she would have been had she started at age five and progressed with her peers. She was very bright, but very immature and arrogant–not a great combo; she graduated at age 16. She had what I would call moderate luck with admissions(for a profoundly gifted child who would look fabulous on paper). She was admitted to Brown, but rejected at four or five other Ivies. She ended up at William and Mary with some merit money, but not a lot.</p>
<p>When my daughter was younger, our public school’s answer for gifted kids was to move them ahead. I was against the idea, not for the reasons you have mentioned, but because I did not want her to be the youngest when she was introduced to drugs and sex for the first time. I guess it all goes with maturity level.</p>
<p>I understand. I was never home-schooled but also never went to any large school. It does have to do with maturity level. I know some schools they will not let gifted students skip but put them in gifted programs that just are the classes that everyone else takes but with more homework and projects. I don’t think that would have helped me or would help any real accelerated learner.</p>
<p>^^^ Omg yes!!! I hate it when people think older=more mature! Just because you are younger doesn’t mean you are less capable of anything! In fact, I find that a lot of people in my grade (I’m a rising senior) have less maturity than my 5 year old brother :/</p>
<p>The only disadvantage I’ve really had is having to wait a little longer for some things like driving,lol. It gets annoying when everyone has had their license for 1-2 years and I’m still waiting to be old enough to get my permit :p</p>
<p>I knew what I was getting into, so waiting to get my permit is fine with me. I knew I will be driving later and hey, who drives in college really anyways? If you live on campus, it is most likely cheaper to just ride a bike.</p>
<p>I skipped 1st grade as well! 
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<p>All of my friends, and even teachers, make age jokes and whatnot but other than that, I don’t notice anything. Especially when the skipping is early in schooling (1st grade for example) a student matures with his or her classmates because that is the atmosphere he or she is in. Since I was 5 or 6, all of my friends have been 1-2 years older than me, and now I don’t think much of it!</p>
<p>I think it’s beneficial mostly to eliminate boredom; what’s the point in keeping a child below his or her level when he or she would most likely thrive off a challenge :)</p>
<p>^Haha true. I don’t plan on driving in college either. It’s just the freedom to be more independent that I want I can’t do a lot of things like clubs or sports after school because I have to be at home by 4 to babysit my brother but if I could drive instead of having to rely on buses that don’t fit my schedule, I would be able to.</p>
<p>And I saw on another thread that you skipped 3 grades?! Haha wow! Which ones, if you don’t mind me asking. Did you skip over a block of 3 grades like going from grade 4 to 7 or were they in separate years?</p>
<p>oh…separate grades. I skipped Kindergarten and went to 1st. Then I went from 3 to fourth. Then my junior year I graduated without even going to 12th. (I guess that is skipping a grade…sort of)</p>
<p>My parents and my first grade teacher wanted to skip me to second grade, but the administration wouldn’t allow it. They said it would cause me to become “socially inept” (I went to Catholic school, maybe that had something to do with it, I don’t really know).</p>
<p>I’m definitely glad I was kept where I was supposed to be though. I don’t think I would be able to handle everything I watched the senior class go through at my current age yet. I guess it really depends on each person’s individual personality, intelligence and work ethic, even at a young age (an intelligent five-year-old who only wants to color rather than read, for example, may not be ready for second grade, even if he or she is smart)</p>
<p>Why would colleges think skipping grades is bad?</p>