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I hope it turns out to be 5 year olds and 25% of the class but that is not what I have seen, heard or experienced at other schools.  GDS could be the exception.[/quote]

Yes, these children are "on time," turning entering PK at age 4 and entering K at age 5, turning 5 and 6 respectively during the summer. GDS may be the exception, I don't know.

I believe that parents are speculating that their children didn't get accepted into these competitive private schools because of their summer birthdays, when in fact admissions to these schools is largely a game of numbers. Summer, non-red-shirted boys do get accepted into these schools. But the simple fact of the matter is that your child may not have gotten in even with a fall birthday. When you have 200 children applying for 20 spots, and half of those are reserved for sibs/alum/faculty/staff, the numbers work against you.[/quote]

I'm not speculating,[b] I asked admissions people [/b]about summer birthday kids and they were pretty honest that most needed an extra year or that they had one or two kids.  As if these kids are the exception and not the norm.[/quote]

Again, which schools? So far, we know that GDS does have summer non-red-shirted boys enrolled in PK/K. Is anyone actually willing to name schools, even on this anonymous thread, that explicitly state that they recommend holding back summer birthdays?[/quote]

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