<p>I saw a thread on another forum that was asking about the differences between the AP curricula and the IB diploma curriculum. Of course one crucial difference is that some high schools offer only one or the other, and quite a few high schools offer neither. </p>
<p>Among students you know, how did class of 2007 IB diploma candidates fare in college admission this spring? In my town, most of the young people I know who got into the most competitive colleges were in high schools with AP courses and without the IB diploma curriculum. My own local school district’s sole high school has an IB diploma program, newly established, and offers quite a few AP courses, but I’m not aware of anyone from the local high school who got into the most sought-after colleges. What news have you heard? What do those of you who are IB diploma students graduating this year have to say about how the IB diploma program influenced your college prospects?</p>
<p>How many people were in the IB program at your school, versus non-IB? If there were more non-IB students than IB students, then of course there would be more non-IB students going to top schools. And it looks like quite a few IB students got into top schools. And finally, IB or AP does not make the difference to top colleges. Analyzing how many IB students go to this college versus AP students is silly because you can’t see SAT scores, ECs, essays, recommendations, etc. The program does not make the student.</p>
<p>There are 51 students in my class, 49(?) of whom are Diploma candidates. I don’t have the results compiled from my entire grade, but here are a few that I remember. We also have people going to Johns Hopkins, Berkeley out-of-state, Michigan out-of-state, NYU, and other great schools, but I don’t have the numbers for those yet.</p>
<p>Some of these overlap, so I’ve listed the number of students who are actually attending after the number of acceptances.</p>
<p>We did well considering our size, but it’s difficult to draw any sweeping conclusions from it since my school is pretty atypical (small, private, international, and one of the first IB schools in the country) and the IB is the only curriculum offered.</p>
<p>I’ve been here a while. (I stay active on these forums because of a statewide educational organization I’m on the board of directors of; College Confidential is a good source of information for me to help other parents.) </p>
<p>And, yes, one thing parents in my area are curious about is whether IB diploma programs open up more college opportunities for their children than other kinds of high school programs. Please keep the replies coming.</p>
<p>International School, class of 101, everyone takes the full IB diploma.</p>
<p>About 50 are going to school outside the US, which includes 3 Cambridge and 1 Oxford offers, and a boatload at LSE, Warwick, Imperial and UCL. Another boatload at Toronto, McGill, UBC.</p>
<p>Of the remaining US students (attending, not acceptances)</p>
<p>do you know what they got? like how many of those people received 30-35? 36-40? 41-45? etc. thanks.
i’m in one of the guinea pig classes so i’m pretty confused.</p>
<p>People don’t know what they get until July, when the actual results are out. All grades that are sent to universities during the application process are through predicted grades, and people are usually pretty stingy about those. Our school does love to advertise our final average score and trumpet it whenever they can, though.</p>
AP kids got into the following:
UPenn
Duke(legacy)
Northwestern
NYU Stern
Looking from the results of our class this year, it seems as though it doesnt make a difference as to AP or IB. However, we`ve had one student go to Harvard for the past 4 years and they were all full IB kids. Coincedence? I dont know.</p>
<p>At my school we are IB Diploma candidates, but we also take AP tests, so we are perhaps not making an argument either for or against your premise, but I will post stats anyway. And these are simply what I know, not by any means is this a comprehensive list of where people were accepted/going.
Also, our (IB Diploma, not entire school) class is about 130 people, but many of those apply only to UF, so the number of students attempting top colleges is quite a bit smaller…although, it consists for the most part of the stronger students, so I suppose that’s irrelevant.</p>