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[quote=Anonymous]NP. You’ve kicked up a hornet’s nest here, OP. You are probably going to eventually get some flatly insane posts from the nutty anti-redshirters who don’t understand the fundamentals of private school admissions (or often basic math). I say this as someone who didn’t redshirt but who has read these threads here before. However, I didn’t read the rest of this thread so idk if they are here yet.

You are correct to ask about specific schools but the problem is that the answer is often kid-specific. The competitive privates will often have a range in grade that is quite wide, but if they recommend redshirting your specific kid, I would listen. In private HS school seminar-style classes there are multiple grades in each class anyhow, so the wider age range in an individual grade isn’t a big deal. Typically private schools are recommending redshirting or not in kindergarten based on their experience with kids through their system, so you will want to understand the academic and social factors each school looks at in making its recommendation.

For the competitive privates, most are happy to accept on-time kids, but they are also happy to recommend redshirting. It’s not a strict either/or. You’ll probably get answers here from people with on-time kids at all the competitive privates, and that is correct. All accept and even look for on-time boys. But they also recommend redshirting.

In general, don’t listen to DCUM too much on this. You might get the bizarre IQ-obsessed lady and maybe the natural law anti-redshirter, because these threads definitely bring out the weirdos, but after years of parenting kids, I can tell you that redshirting is just not that big of a deal one way or another. I say that as a parent of kids who are young for grade and old for grade. My young-for-grade kid has kids over a year older in class, but it is not that big a deal and they are some of DCs good friends. Don’t let the DCUM Thunderdome weirdos get to you. Either way it will be fine. 
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