Sorry, didn't mean that the grade-skipped folks all had huge regrets. One multiple grade skipped woman I know is happily married, happily employed and early entranced her kids - her "regrets" were minor. However, another always felt like she was treated as an outcast by her schoolmates, and when she gained entrance to a prestigious conservatory, her parents said it was too far away for a kid her age - and she never went to college.

I guess you can always "undo" a skip with a post-grad year if that skipped year proves to be a disadvantage for college athletics. Of course, the tuition might defeat the goal of a swimming scholarship, though one kid from my school essentially did a post-grad year at her local public school,