College Discussion - View Single Post - AP vs. IB

mamafish · 03-22-2008, 01:26 PM

DD is one of 5 kids in our fledgling IB program who is sticking it out for the diploma - most of her courses are AP/IB courses....at the beginning of the year, we had 14 kids going for it - most have dropped, probably b/c they saw no advantage in college admissions (all those AP/IBs show up on their transcript anyway - most colleges won't even know if they are diploma candidates or not).

We'll never know if any college accepts these kids because of IB... but I am very proud of DD because she is doing this to challenge herself and to make her transition to rigorous college easier. Her experience with the EE (the kids here have to find their own mentor as our school does almost nothing for them), working with her peers to prep for the orals, finding other IBers online, and using us as her sounding board as she wrote her TOK paper have, IMHO, a unique value that the AP route does not....

At our struggling public urban school I am very glad there is an option which urges some of the highly motivated kids to do more than sit home with a stack of practice AP tests....whether colleges prefer it or not!

03-22-2008, 01:26 PM	#55
mamafish New Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Threads: 5 Posts: 25	IB has value beyond college acceptance game DD is one of 5 kids in our fledgling IB program who is sticking it out for the diploma - most of her courses are AP/IB courses....at the beginning of the year, we had 14 kids going for it - most have dropped, probably b/c they saw no advantage in college admissions (all those AP/IBs show up on their transcript anyway - most colleges won't even know if they are diploma candidates or not). We'll never know if any college accepts these kids because of IB... but I am very proud of DD because she is doing this to challenge herself and to make her transition to rigorous college easier. Her experience with the EE (the kids here have to find their own mentor as our school does almost nothing for them), working with her peers to prep for the orals, finding other IBers online, and using us as her sounding board as she wrote her TOK paper have, IMHO, a unique value that the AP route does not.... At our struggling public urban school I am very glad there is an option which urges some of the highly motivated kids to do more than sit home with a stack of practice AP tests....whether colleges prefer it or not!