r6mile

As many of you might know, the Advanced Placement International Diploma is available to students attending secondary schools outside the United States and to U.S. resident students applying to universities outside the country. You don't need to apply for it, it is automatically awarded to you if you meet the requirements:
Grades of at least 3 in:
1. Two AP Exams from two different languages selected from English and/or world languages,
2. One AP Exam designated as offering a global perspective,
3. One exam from the sciences or mathematics content areas,
4. One (or two) additional exam(s) from among any content areas except English and world languages.

My question is:
For those who are going to try for it, or at least know something about it, does it really help to have it? I mean, do colleges really look at your application more seriously if you have it?

b@r!um

Nope. I don't think any college cares about the diploma itself, but they will certainly take the number of APs you are taking into account.
The AP IB's purpose is to encourage students to take the AP exams necessary to be admissable to certain universities outside the US. (I know that German universities in fact do require at least 4, sometimes 5 AP exams of American students so that they can enroll as first-year students)

r6mile

Because I sent an e-mail to Sciences-Po Paris, and they told me that they accept the APID for international admissions. Then I answered back asking if the APID was really necessary, or it was the number of AP's that counted, but they didn't answer me back, so I don't know...

b@r!um

I don't know about French universities, but German u's only count the number and the subjects of the APs. If you want to study engineering for example, you need only one language but two math/science APs; the APID (with a science as the optional AP) would give you admission to all subjects.

heerothewizard

I know this thread is a bit old, but...
would the APID be of any use when applying to UK universities? I'm about to be a senior, and I'll have most of the requirements for the APID filled. I'm missing one, however: it's the Global category: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/ap...ves/38601.html
My school doesn't offer Comparative Government, Human Geography, or World History, so I'd have to self-study one of these three. Would it actually be worth it? MY UK list so far includes Oxford, St Andrews, LSE, Warwick, and KCL (though perhaps it'll be replaced by Aberystwyth).

Thanks!

Rister_Chutophs

You should look at the schools and their requirements which depend upon the subject you want to study. I doubt that the APID is of any use per se.

bookie504

If we are living in the United States then is this beneficial?

arghwhy

^It's even MORE useless in the USA.