Do colleges care if I got held back in 7th grade?

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<p>Well, colleges will “know” that you’ll be nineteen when entering college and most freshmen are eighteen. Not all, most.</p>

<p>Whether they’ll know or ask as to the *reason<a href=“gap%20year,%20left%20back,%20etc.”>/i</a> is another question. I have no idea what the answer to that is. Others will have to chime in on that.</p>

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<p>A May birthday is almost exactly perfectly right in the middle of the age distribution for each grade. I wouldn’t consider it “young” at all.</p>