<p>I am going into tenth grade at a highly selective boarding school (imsa) but I will be a year younger than everyone else. Will this affect my college applications/admissions? I’ll probably be doing cs and stanford is my dream school (like everyone else). Any advice helps, thanks!</p>
<p>What year did you skip? They probably won’t even take notice if it was prior to your transcript/records being considered. </p>
<p>I skipped 9th grade, but I took a 9th grade math and science course in 8th grade</p>
<p>I don’t know how that works. Does the school give you credit for all the courses you didn’t take in 9th grade? when the colleges tally your social science, language, math, and science credits will they consider you don’t have any from ninth grade?</p>
<p>jkeil911 The school I attend is a sophomore to senior year school and I got in from 8th grade. I will put on my application that I skipped 9th grade, maybe my 8th grade grades, maybe my 9th grade m&ms courses too. But what will colleges think?</p>
<p>as I said, OP, I don’t know. It’s an interesting question, but I can’t help you. Someone will have the answer, I think.</p>
<p>You’ll be fine. I dealt with a similar scenario except I was promoted from the eighth grade to the ninth. For the majority of my applications, I just provided a brief synopsis of why and how I was promoted. I was admitted to several universities and will be attending UCLA this fall. 
Everything will work out as it should. Good luck!</p>
<p>congratulations, @UCaliHopeful.</p>
<p>IMSA is a special 3-year (10th -12th grade) public high school with selective admission. It accepts qualified students who finish 9th grade or 8th grade. Actually the average SAT scores (a requirement in admission application) of admitted 8th graders are higher then the those of the admitted 9th graders (<a href=“https://www.imsa.edu/sites/default/files/upload/imsas_invited_class_of_2016_rev.pdf”>https://www.imsa.edu/sites/default/files/upload/imsas_invited_class_of_2016_rev.pdf</a>). Those who skip 9th grade and attend IMSA usually do well. Personally I know 3 students who skipped 9th grade and they went to Duke, Georgetown, and Yale. Only IMSA GPA is considered in college application. Most students were straight A students before attending IMSA but few would graduate with straight As from IMSA. </p>
<p>josephhutter12, just do your best at IMSA and make good use of all the resources the school can offer. If you have attended the orientation, you should have been told that choosing IMSA is for the sake of learning, not for the sake of getting into an elite college. The profiles of IMSA in the past years indicate that students are constantly accepted by MIT, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Harvey Mudd, Cornell, Georgia Tech etc. UIUC admission is a sure thing for IMSA students as long as they do not fail any course. </p>
<p>Thanks everyone who commented (responses here and quora are like 100x faster than everywhere else) for their advice. Thanks @jkeil911 for not just ignoring it and @UCaliHopeful for some experience. @Bamboolong you seem to know a lot about IMSA, do/did you go there? And I don’t mean to sound like a college-HYPSM-oriented brat , it’s just that I decided to skip freshman year (with pressure from family) and was wondering if there would be any problems or regrets. Anyway, thanks for your help!</p>
<p>No, I didn’t go to IMSA but I know quiet a few people going there. Make sure that it is you yourself who want to attend the school, not your family members who want you to go. IMSA does offer better college counseling than the regular public high schools. Stanford is hard to get in, no matter which school you attend, skipping a grade or not. Both Class 13 and Class 14 have one student attending Stanford. Some of the top students chose UIUC to major in CE or EE over other top 20 schools for both academic and financial reasons.
BTW, the IMSA Internet service will be cut off at 11:30 pm for sophomores (& 1:00 am for juniors & seniors). You’d better get used to it from now. Best wishes for your high school life.</p>
<p>Alright @Bamboolong cool thanks. Actually I didn’t want to skip a grade because I thought it would affect my college admissions (oh the irony). My family didn’t want me to waste a year of time and money when one year wouldn’t matter (IMSA doesn’t really care about your past classes). Thank you for your advice.</p>