| "If you take the full IB diploma program like i have, with TOK, CAS, Extended Essays, World Literature etc. i'm pretty sure there's no such thing as a GPA."
I can't speak for the OP, but I can tell you how it is for many IB programs in the US, including the one my son is in. While it's a full IB diploma program with CAS, TOK, EE, etc., they still receive regular letter grades in each class, including all the IB classes. They also take the IB exams. So, they have a GPA which is averaged over all of their classes (all will have at least some non-IB classes as well, such as band). At my son's school, IB classes are weighted for GPA purposes the same as AP or honors courses. Thus, colleges will get a transcript that looks like a typical American high school transcript, with letter grades for each course for each semester, and showing weighted and unweighted GPAs. I think that IF a school produces grades like this, a college in the US is much more likely to focus on those grades than on the somewhat speculative predicted IB score. Obviously, if there are no such grades, the colleges will look at what you do have.
I should add that in this system it's easy to see how one could have a 3.14 GPA but have a high IB score. |