How can a prospective recruit "reclassify"?

[Ceasar]

Referring to the 2019 recruiting thread and it is mentioned that the top CB in class of 2020 has "reclassified" himself and is now in the class of 2019. Just wondering how this can happen for a sophomore in high school to all of a sudden decide he is a junior. The bigger question, and a more serious one is, how does a high school go about helping this to occur? Of course I understand a kid like Parsons or Luketa, who are seniors and know at the beginning of their senior year that they have earned the requisite number of credits and can graduate early if they choose to. But surely a kid who is halfway through his sophomore year can't have earned more than about 10-11 credits, can they?

 

[Rip_E_2_Joe_PA]

Referring to the 2019 recruiting thread and it is mentioned that the top CB in class of 2020 has "reclassified" himself and is now in the class of 2019. Just wondering how this can happen for a sophomore in high school to all of a sudden decide he is a junior. The bigger question, and a more serious one is, how does a high school go about helping this to occur? Of course I understand a kid like Parsons or Luketa, who are seniors and know at the beginning of their senior year that they have earned the requisite number of credits and can graduate early if they choose to. But surely a kid who is halfway through his sophomore year can't have earned more than about 10-11 credits, can they?

Yes they can. Why can't they? My son needed 1 P.E. credit to graduate from high school his sophomore year. I don't get the question? He didn't take the PE credit so he could all college classes his Junior year and deferred taking his P.E. credit till the last semester of his so called junior year so he could load up on college credits in advance of going to University. He entered college 9 credits shy of being a collegiate junior. You can reclassify your self if permitted to take classes and jumping years. upon the completion of credits in advance.

 

[Ceasar]

Rip, that answers my question, sort of. I understand if a kid, like your son, has the credits required to graduate, then he can graduate regardless of how many years you have been in high school.
But my question is not about a kid who has enough credits to graduate. It's about how a kid who is half way through his SO year can declare that he is actually halfway through his JR year. I can understand at the end of his SO year he may be able to show he has gained 75% of credits needed to graduate. But doesn't the school have to weigh in on this?

 

[djr4rebs]

I'm only guessing here, but he's probably looking at graduating a year earlier than originally scheduled. He's probably gotten everything in order to do so, thus the announcement.

 

[Rip_E_2_Joe_PA]

Rip, that answers my question, sort of. I understand if a kid, like your son, has the credits required to graduate, then he can graduate regardless of how many years you have been in high school.
But my question is not about a kid who has enough credits to graduate. It's about how a kid who is half way through his SO year can declare that he is actually halfway through his JR year. I can understand at the end of his SO year he may be able to show he has gained 75% of credits needed to graduate. But doesn't the school have to weigh in on this?

No. If he has the credits completed to jump a year or 2 what would the school have to say but "congratulations". Once you have met the requirements to graduate, high schools cannot kidnap or imprison students.......

 

[Ceasar]

No. If he has the credits completed to jump a year or 2 what would the school have to say but "congratulations". Once you have met the requirements to graduate, high schools cannot kidnap or imprison students.......

Agreed but I am not making my point clear. I am making an assumption that after one and a half years of HS he has not yet met the requirements. Let's assume the player in question is super smart. He may be on track to graduate in 3 years but obviously there would be no guarantees until he actually completes is third year of HS. From the responses I am sending this is a matter of semantics and the kid in question has not been "reclassified" but rather is simply saying "I'm going to try to graduate in 3 years".

 

[78SweetRevenge]

Agreed but I am not making my point clear. I am making an assumption that after one and a half years of HS he has not yet met the requirements. Let's assume the player in question is super smart. He may be on track to graduate in 3 years but obviously there would be no guarantees until he actually completes is third year of HS. From the responses I am sending this is a matter of semantics and the kid in question has not been "reclassified" but rather is simply saying "I'm going to try to graduate in 3 years".

Right--it's just a kid saying he's going to graduate in 3 and enter college a year early.

 

[Rip_E_2_Joe_PA]

Agreed but I am not making my point clear. I am making an assumption that after one and a half years of HS he has not yet met the requirements. Let's assume the player in question is super smart. He may be on track to graduate in 3 years but obviously there would be no guarantees until he actually completes is third year of HS. From the responses I am sending this is a matter of semantics and the kid in question has not been "reclassified" but rather is simply saying "I'm going to try to graduate in 3 years".

Your assumption is bogus and inapplicable in this case. How many athletes were classified as 2018 .... and will not graduate and/or qualify before fall matriculation rolls around? Dozens across the nation. Historically, sometimes dozens in a single Miami Hurricane class. So although classified as part of the 2018 recruiting class they have often to go to The Kiski School or Kiski Prep. After which they are reclassified as 2019 recruits. It works both ways. This kid has every reasonable expectation based on his achievements to graduate a year earlier than the recruiting know nothings thought he would. Why, because they were uninformed. They don't measure academic progress at Rival Camps. So, if he has a reasonable expectation of graduating a year early he can inform the recruiting world of that fact and reclassify himself.

 

[bison13]

All any student has to do to reclassify is meet with their guidance counselor and prepare a schedule for the remaining credits to be completed in the time frame the student wants. Most states only require you to take an English class in 4 years, but even that rule can be amended if you want to graduate early by doubling up. Those who are excelling academically can do this quite often if they choose but many end up taking AP classes as Seniors to acquire college credit.

 

[Ceasar]

Your assumption is bogus and inapplicable in this case. How many athletes were classified as 2018 .... and will not graduate and/or qualify before fall matriculation rolls around? Dozens across the nation. Historically, sometimes dozens in a single Miami Hurricane class. So although classified as part of the 2018 recruiting class they have often to go to The Kiski School or Kiski Prep. After which they are reclassified as 2019 recruits. It works both ways. This kid has every reasonable expectation based on his achievements to graduate a year earlier than the recruiting know nothings thought he would. Why, because they were uninformed. They don't measure academic progress at Rival Camps. So, if he has a reasonable expectation of graduating a year early he can inform the recruiting world of that fact and reclassify himself.

My assumption is bogus? Okay, I'll take your word for it that you are familiar with the young mans academic record since my assumption is that after a year and a half of high school he has not yet met the requirements for graduating and therefore it is fair to say that the young man could graduate in 2019 if he continues to do well. Not sure how many credits are needed in the HS in your area. In central PA most schools require 24 credits and kids have 7 classes/credits per year. So a kid in central PA is halfway through his SO year he would likely have 10.5 credits and at the end of his junior year he would have 21. This makes it possible to have the required 24 credits midway through SR year and makes it possible for kids like Parsons to graduate a semester early. Understood each school is different and offer options to gain additional credits.

 

[bison13]

One thing that most people dont account for is the fact that Algebra 1 and any foreign language that is taken before HS counts as a credit towards HS. Some excelling students come in to 9th grade with 2 math credits and 2 foreign language credits. Here in MD our kids need 26 credits, getting 8 per year. If they can double up on English somehow, they can have enough to graduate in 3 years if they took for example, Algebra 1 and Spanish 1 in 8th grade.

 

[Rip_E_2_Joe_PA]

Ok .... what did you reach into to pull out your assumption out?
What is your assumption based on..... why don't you just google the kid, his coach and his counselor? Kids have been graduating from high school a year or more early for decades. My son that did it and is 34 years old. Good grief .... what do the status of our early enrollees have to do with this kid or anyone else.

Geez