2nd attempt at upper school

[Flexible Fred]

Hi all,

Question if you audition at 17 at upper school and are successful do you actually join as year 2 and have therefore skipped a year and only study at that school for 2 years?

Or do you slot in with first year 16 year olds and do the full 3 years ??

[Mrs G]

Hi flexible Fred, I think you would start in year 1 . Our DS is a student at laine and started last september aged 16 . The majority of the students in his year group are aged 18 plus .they all started as first years irrelivent of age.

[Lifeafterballet]

Hi, My Ds is in his first year of A levels / nearly 17 and will be joining Elmhurst 6:1 in September. Technically repeating the year but getting 3 years of ballet training. He is lucky that 3 of his 4 A levels he can do an AS exam in and the other is being transferred. At the prelims this year I met other 17 and even 18 year olds !

[Picturesinthefirelight]

If you were at a school that studied for the Trinity Diplona (so Dada schools) you would have to show you'd passed the first year assessments. So unless you were transferring from another school & could transfer those credits you would start in the 1st year.

[orchidblue]

Not all first years will be 16 Flexible Fred. My DD started at upper school after doing her A levels and so was 18 at the start of the first year. She will be 21 when she graduates. ☺

[taxi4ballet]

For the schools offering a 3-year degree course such as Rambert and Central, then you start in year 1. 

[lilacfairy]

Rambert. has 18 year olds in yr 1

[Guest]

I'm in first year and our year ranges from 16-21