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[quote=Anonymous]In the vast majority of the US, cut-off dates have long since been moved from December to September. That means that starting the next year, with an October birthday, is right on time. For your age cohort, about 70% of the states with cut-off dates established them as September or earlier.

No one in college will care about your age as long as you're the age of a typical undergrad or had a similar life path (i.e. you're not someone who spent 4 years in the military prior to college etc., in which case your age and experience and relative maturity would set you apart). It's also not unusual for people to redshirt (i.e. a kid with a summer birthday might well start the next year), and it's increasingly common for kids to take a gap year.

Note: If you are super self-conscious or anxious about your perfectly normal age, people will notice it and consider you weird, because being self-conscious and/or anxious about something totally normal is a red flag. If it really bothers you, you need to talk to a therapist about it. It sounds like this is a really, really big deal to you, when it ought to be trivial. Were you teased for being bigger than other kids? Teased for being the "dumb kid"? Do you feel like your parents are generally overprotective or over-controlling?

Enjoy your college years. If anything, it's a good time to linger, explore your interests, establish life-long friendships, gain experience with independence, and learn about yourself and what you'd really like to do with your life.[/quote]

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