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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our student will be 16 when they apply and 17 when they enter freshman year. Do colleges look at age during admissions? Are there certain colleges that we need to rule out based on age? [/quote]

Both my kids at ivy/+ have many peers who started Freshman year at 17, and turned 18 between October and January of Freshman year, so they were still 16 when they were writing applications. Out of a freshman hall of 25 kids, 4 were that age. Only one had turned 19 prior to start. The rest were the typical 18-going-to be 19 sometime during freshman year or just after. For international students, starting at 17 is common, but it also occurs among domestic students. It is not a detriment to be 17 at the start of freshman year. For my other kid, 4 out of her 6 close friends started college at 17 and turned 18 during the first year. Mine thought themselves "young" turning 18 a couple of months before freshman year started, and NOVA moms claimed they would be considered too young by elites. Baloney. Colleges do not care, as long as they have the requisite course preparation. In the US that means the kid should have completed 4 years of high school with all of the main courses, unless there are significant extenuating circumstances such that the student ran out of all course options possible due to being extremely advanced. [/quote]

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