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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know how Harvard decided a few years ago to end early admission?  And because it's H.A.R.V.A.R.D, well, everyone took notice and additional schools followed suit.  It's probably doing the right thing for the right reasons, and because it's Harvard .... it can.

I wish one or more elite private schools in DC would, for once and all, put children in the correct grade.  When the admission committee is holding the application of a nearly 6 yr old, I wish, say, Sidwell's admission committee would have the balls to say Hey guess what? You don't belong in kindergarten.  I wish that Beauvoir, for example, would put 4 year olds in preK and 5 year olds in K.   The applicants whose child will turn 7 will have to apply elsewhere, in my dream scenario.

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Your reference in your OP to Harvard's ending early admissions is inapt: Harvard ended the practice of admitting applicants in the fall of senior year in favor of requiring all applicants to wait for an admissions decision on April 1. Contrary to your implication, Harvard did NOT end the practice of admitting applicants of different chronological ages as entering freshmen. In a freshmen class you might find a few 16-year-olds, a lot of 17-or-18-year-olds, one or two 15-year-olds, and maybe a 25-year-old or two. [/quote]

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