The Birthday Phenomenon

So after I read the first section of Outliers, I could easily relate to the age for sport context. My own kids are either advantaged by this (in baseball), or subject to this (in soccer). Although the oldest in their school classrooms, in sport it has the potential to create challenges. For my oldest son, he will have to move up to U-15 soccer next fall; no bigger than his 3-years-younger brother, he will be playing with other boys potentially 4 years senior. It is unlikely he will play; rather, he is likely to play fall baseball, where his age is an advantage. But how does the birtday phenomenom affect academics? As discussed at a recent SA traing, all the current SAs and this past year's spring SAs all have birthdays that fall between the last two week of January and the first two weeks of September with a disporportionate number falling in the second quarter of the year (April, May, June). Why is that?

Welcome to the SA blog

Welcome the Whitman College Student Academic Advisers' blog!
It is our hope that this space will be used for the following purposes:
1) connect current SAs with one another over the summer;
2) provide a forum for pre-discussion of the summer reading assignments; and
3) explore blogging as a medium for connection, communication, and collaboration.

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