<p>I sympathize with your situation. In our house, we make decisions by the year. By that I mean when we hit a bump in the road, we never make a decision until the end of the academic year. I would not worry about the deadlines for the local schools if he has already been admitted, I don’t think there would be a problem with admission during the summer months. The problem with starting the process during the school year is the potential to “check out”. Get in touch with his adviser, they deal with this all the time and it is not unusual. The winter semester is tough with the shorter daylight, cold weather and mounds of snow in the Northeast. This issue is common across all types of schools, big and small.</p>