| hunt:
yes, you're right, some schools in us offer both ap/honors program and ib courses for their hs students and grades for ib courses are also given. i'm confused bc microblaster said he goes to int'l school in india; so i thought he was taking full ib.
for most int'l students doing full ib are not offered grades (except maybe at int'l american schools). for comparison with aps and a levels, ib score of 6 is equivalent to a. in the us, schools offer an unconditional offer to ib students but have a general statement that they have the right to withdraw the admission if the student scores found to be significantly lower than their submitted ones which is not really considered conditional and which i think is applicable to admittees in general. uk schools still offer conditional offer asking students to meet at least the minimum requirement.
as a matter of fact, i found out a few years ago at exeter bs when my other son was studying there that us schools have the right to give any student admission even without hs diploma as long as other requirements (sat scores, ecs, essays etc.) are met, which really surprised me. you're right most other countries (commonwealth in particular) do give conditional offer to ib students. in case of my son, he was given conditional offer at uk imperial college with minimum ib score 39 vs his predicted 41. |