Is there some anxiety that your daughter is stronger than her other Level 5 teammates, but she might be held back because they don't want to have just one or two at Level 7?
You nailed it. I feel like that is what happened this year too. The gym was saying L6 in 2015, and at the last minute said no, L5/6 are so similar (their words) that they just wanted to keep all the girls together and do a full season of L5. Two weeks before the first meet, when scoring out had been the plan since Feb.