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[quote=Anonymous]I am old, but I went to college at 16, and my birthday is in the spring, so I was on the younger end even before skipping.   I skipped k, so most of my classmates were already one year older.  Then I was taking ALL classes with kids at least another year older, so skipping another grade in high school just put me with the kids I was hanging out with anyway.  I was an RA at my boarding school and an RA in college, so I wasn’t immature amongst my cohort.  I went to a top 3 SLAC. I knew I would have difficulty in a big school.  Starting college then was absolutely the right decision and absolutely no one cares about it now. When I applied to my boarding school two years younger than my peers, they said they’d never seen it work before, but see above—I did just fine both academically and socially.  I was the driver, not my parents, so that probably helped—I really wanted out of the academic environment available to me at home.  I wasn’t thrilled about being away from my parents, but, frankly, my relationship with them was probably better in the teen years for having a little distance.  My brother is much smarter than me (he has been part of a Nobel Prize winning project), and he didn’t skip any grades—also the right call.  You know your kid.[/quote]

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