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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, there is no law on when to apply to college or that all applicants must be the same age. Your kid will be competing with all kinds of people - veterans, kids who took gap year or years, kids who had to work for a few years before college to save money, late bloomers, foreign transfers etc. Leave the age considerations to the admissions officers and keep eyes on your own paper.[/quote] True enough, but you're overlooking the fact that the older kid will have had advantages during his earlier schooling that are more likely to result in better grades. With a higher GPA and possibly higher test scores, as well as possibly better opportunities to participate in extracurriculars (better at sports because he's older, and perhaps more likely to take leadership roles in other types of activities/clubs), he'll be applying for college with advantages that are more likely to get him accepted and get a merit scholarship.[/quote]
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