<p>You won’t be unique and colleges don’t see the middle school transcripts. I would aim higher on the SATs. You seem capable of that with your GPA and course load.</p>
<p>We bucked the holding your kid back trend with DS3, by advancing him a year. He just turned 17 and is a senior so some of his friends in school are actually more than a year older than him. I’m hoping the schools will maybe notice this, but with a billion applications, I doubt that they are paying attention to age at all.</p>