| Ah, junior year is definitely quite important for admissions. Better work on getting those grades up. =)
And meh, I've had bad experiences trying to get credit for IB courses, in fact I'd recommend you to take the AP courses over IB courses if you could. Quick example, at my school AP and IB Economics are combined, so I take both the AP Micro and Macro Econ exams, and the IBSL exam. My year there were a lot of US specific questions on the exam (I lived overseas) so I ended up with a 4 on the Micro exam. Turns out you had to have a 5 on the Micro before your Macro score would even be considered for credit -- this was my year though. So, no credit for any of my AP Econ exams, even though I had a 5 on the Macro. I thought alright no big deal, my IB should get me something since I got a 7 (full marks). Bah. It wasn't even considered because it was the SL level. Ridiculous. I had to take Econ 201 and 202 (equivalent of AP Econ Micro and Macro) and was bored out of my brains in those classes.
I 'loved' how my high school loved to emphasize the IB diploma (we offered both IB and AP) and said US schools valued it as equally as the AP courses. Complete hot air in my opinion, some schools didn't even recognize IB courses and certainly less credit were given to those classes. |