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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thinking about applications to various schools next year and how to think about the later grades and whether to do K8 or K12. Not sure if there is any way to know this, but are the kids who enter at 9th grade typically the strongest academically in the more competitive schools? I mean, in a K12, does it generally track that the later the student enters, the stronger academically they have to be? Or does it not really work like that because the more competitive schools are really good at teaching the kids they have so they all kind of even out?[/quote]

Yes. It is very clear in everything not just academics. The new kids entering in 9th grade push the lifers to the side. It is not even close. The most competitive schools are picking the very top students and athletes. [/quote]

+1000, the arriving 9th graders have been chosen to cover a variety of niches and many, many excel[/quote]

That makes sense.  It’s far easier to judge the potential success of a rising 9th grader with an established track record than a 4 year old who goes on to be a school “lifer.”  For the 4 year old, it’s mostly the parents who are being judged-not the kid.  That can lead to a broad range of abilities by the time high school rolls around.[/quote]

Exactly. And people here wax on and on about how it's better to come into k-12s earlier because 9th is so competitive. 
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Some private schools admit 4 year olds. So then you’re choosing amongst 3 year olds.  That is far from an exact science.  [/quote]

Inherently bizarre to me as someone who was public then Andover. 3 years old?![/quote]

Yes and they are often wrong about which kids will be successful.  I used to live in Houston and it's well know that George Bush was rejected from the top school (st Johns), yet he became president.  His father paid his way into the "rich kid" school, which is known to take kids who buy their way in and very smart kids who boost their scores - a dichotomy.[/quote]

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