How does repeating a grade affect college admission?

sybbie719
Wed, 18 May 2022 12:29:02 +0000

You belong to the cohort based on the year that you started 9th grade anywhere in the world. If you are a sophomore originally part of Cohort, 2024, that is where you will be. If you do not graduate in 2024, you are a student who did not graduate with the cohort and your counselor will indicate why you did not graduate with the cohort.

Why are you repeating 10th grade? Is the private school saying that you will need to repeat 10th grade because you have not met the promotion requirements to be in 11th grade? I doubt if they are going to arbitrarily let you repeat a grade because this also affects the school cohort graduation rates.

As others have stated, you must submit to your school and your high school must submit certified copies of transcripts from every school that you have attended.

There is a difference in a PG year (where the student has graduated and taking a post grad year as a fifth year student) and a student being a 5th year student because s/he did not graduate with the cohort and is being held over a year. The being held back does negatively affect you. Do everything you can to graduate with your cohort and then take a PG year if needed.

@Jihwan_Beck you stated

Non-U.S citizens cannot attend public schools except in cases of foreign exchange students. And the visa that makes me possible to attend a public school is J-1 visa, which is only for a single year in a lifetime. J-1visa as a student is not extendable.

This is absolutely not true.
You have a right to attend public school regardless of your immigrant status

ED.gov Blog – 20 Jul 21

Students, Immigration Status, and the Right to Public Education - ED.gov Blog

The following is a cross-post from the Office for Civil Rights. An essential part of ensuring equal opportunity is protecting all students in their access to education free from discrimination. This includes the right of all students in the United...

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You cannot get a high school diploma from a public school in the US if you have successfully completed high school in another country.

@parentologist - Quite the contrary, public schools do make every effort to ensure that all students graduate with their cohort with in 4 years. Pretty much every public school in the country has a process and has guidance on evaluating foreign transcripts. Public schools make sure that students are fulfilling the graduation requirements and will first program the core 4s: Ela, Math, Soc. and Science.

NYS waives he required regents exams in Global for students who enter high school in NYS for the first time as Juniors in addition to waiving the global and science regents requirements for seniors who start school for the first time in NYS. They are given credits for foreign language, which can be used to fulfill elective credits if they are coming from a country where english is not their first language. PE is waived and students will only have to fulfill the PE requirement for the time they are actually attending school.