<p>So where I live we don’t have accelerated or honors classes, but I am a year ahead in school so in comparison with most other kids in my year I am in a more difficult class. If I include this on my application do you think it will matter? (I’m applying for my birth year class)</p>
<p>Also do public schools in America enroll everyone that applies or are they competitive too? Because my school system is a bit different, and I wasn’t sure if I should put my school as a public or private school, technically it is a public school but the admission rate is only 50% for people in the immediate neighbourhood and 27% if you live more than 5 miles away (It doesn’t actually measure it in miles but the school you went to before has too fall in that area.)</p>
<p>Some US public schools require an exam. Include information about the admission rate/process for your school, and note that you are a year accelerated, but are applying for your ‘normal year’.</p>
<p>It’s fairly common for kids who have skipped a grade to fall back with age mates in BS. It’s also common to repeat even when one hasn’t skipped. The schools will consider your grade acceleration. Don’t worry. On most parents statements, there is a question about whether your child has ever skipped or repeated a year of school. Just make sure you parents include it there with a brief explanation of why and when the decision was made.</p>
<p>I think the equivalent to your school in the US would be called a “magnet school”, that is publicly funded, but selective in admission.</p>
<p>I can second neato’s point about any out-of-the-ordinary circumstances being addressed in the parents’ section of an app. This is a question that appears on the Groton parents’ form:</p>
<p>“4. Is there anything about the sequence of your child’s schooling that we should know? Did your son or daughter ever skip or repeat a year? Was your son or daughter ever asked to withdraw from a school, suspended, or put on probation? Please explain.”</p>
<p>Will it hurt/help? I think that depends on many factors…for example, are you in the top 10% of your class despite the advancement or did the advancement “normalize” your performance? Are you mature for your age? Etc.</p>
<p>You are applying as repeat (if I’ve understood correctly) so I don’t think it will necessarily hurt. Keep in mind that you won’t be the only one applying who got skipped a year and also that kids who get skipped a year here in the US may have also had a chance to take honors classes in their accelerated grade.</p>