Why redshirting for kindergarten is a bad idea:

jonri
Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:14:12 +0000

If considering going out of state for college, those “not-even-5’s” at Kindergarten will also be 17yos in college, possibly in a state with a 9/1 cutoff where everyone at college is older.

Many, if not most, colleges out of staters want to attend attract other kids from out of state, including kids from NYC which has a 12/31 cut off. There are lots of other kids who have skipped a grade and others who finished high school in 3 years. It really isn’t an issue. I can’t imagine a scenario when someone is the ONLY kid in a freshman college class who didn’t turn 18 by September 1.

My kid went to a top college. In frosh suite, one had turned 18 in late June the summer before starting college, my kid and another had fall birthdays, and the 4th had a birthday in January of their first year in college. Guess which one had trouble being away from home? The one born in June. None of the others did.

Maturity doesn’t track chronological age that perfectly and the older one gets, the less it does. Physical and maturity differences between 5 and 6 year olds in the aggregate are greater than physical and maturity differences between 17 and 18 year olds in the aggregate. Of course, there are also great individual variations.