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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t get why you would want to.  It isn’t a rush to finish k-12.  Better for her be the smartest in the class than middle of the pack[/quote]

+1[/quote]

You can still be the smartest and one of the younger students.  What kid wants to be 18 all of senior year and be the oldest?  Someone hast be the oldest, someone has to be the youngest.  In HS, with a lot of elective and math classes, the kids are mixed age anyway.   Mine will be in an elective with seniors as a freshman.  [/quote]

What? First of all, your premise is wrong…it was great to be one of the very first ones to turn 18 (and 16, and 21…) - that is pretty universally seen as a great thing.

But also, that’s not what we’re talking about here. OP’s kid would turn 17 at the very beginning of senior year, and wouldn’t turn 18 until she’s already moved into college [/quote]

It’s not great but you tell yourself that.  You are lecturing someone with a September kid.  I understand all about it.  My kid will turn 18 a few week into college.  No big deal.  [/quote]

It is universally seen as better to turn 19 a few weeks into college versus 18. Lol.[/quote]

I actually avoided peers in college who were out of sync with me age-wise. It usually suggested they had different priorities (drinking, jail time, community college).[/quote]

That’s kind of sad and nonsensical at the same time. Why would you assume their priorities were negative because they didn’t follow the American path?

For European students it’s common to take a gap year.  Harvard has about 20% of students taking a gap year.  Working for nonprofits, traveling, helping in developing countries in whatever they plan on majoring in like teaching, agriculture, engineering. A lifetime experience .  [/quote]

We aren't in Europe and gap years are only for rich kids.[/quote]

Zero college students are asking or hand wringing about whether their friend that sits next to them in organic chem is 18,19, or 20.  They don’t ask or care.  The only time age matters to college students is when they want someone to buy them alcohol [/quote]

+1. Or when all their friends are able to go to the bars and they can’t, without getting a fake ID [/quote]

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