Does your school quota the enrollement in AP/IB courses???
Some school have a limit of the number of people that can enroll in an AP or IB course, typically to only keep the best students in it… and get higher average AP exam scores…
My school doesnt quota but my friend’s school does…
It limits IB Program enrollment to 300 people and limits the number of APs taken w/o special permission to 4 per year, with qualification exam and recommendations for both…
<p>What do you think of quotas??</p>
<p>Good or Bad??</p>
<p>Some people say they are good because its a good explanation to colleges for not enrolling in the HS’s most challanging courses…</p>
<p>My high school is the total OPPOSITE.</p>
<p>They encourage as many students as possible to join the IB program, and try to retain as many as possible, even though they might struggly academically or ultimately not earn the Diploma. There have been many who came out of the IB coordinator’s office crying because they were so torn. Also, once you commit during your junior year, the school won’t let you drop. And finally, 3 students who did IB Diploma this year are going to community college.</p>
<p>My school has no limit on # of APs and no quota, though I don’t know if I’d say we encourage people to take APs.</p>
<p>Honestly I wish they would make some sort of requirement for taking APs, but not a limit on # of classes - there are some people who just aren’t qualified to take APs, and while I respect their need to challenge themselves, people like that “pollute” APs in many instances by slowing the class down by huge amounts. For instance, my AP Chem class didn’t cover everything this year because of a few slower people who took forever to learn the material. Plus, it bothers me when I have to do group assignments in AP classes with kids who shouldn’t be in the class in the first place.</p>
<p>IMO, the best system would be some sort of general academic qualification test for APs in general or simply an entrance exam for any given AP required of all students, rather than quotas, just to ensure that only qualified students take APs.</p>
<p>My school uses recomendations to evaluate who should be in AP or IB and who shouldn’t be. The teachers enforce the policy extremely well; it is difficult to get into AP classes that one did not take the prerequisite classes for.</p>
<p>My school is extremely careless about prerequisites…</p>
<p>To get into AP, you just need to get a form w/ signatures…</p>
<p>At our school, 3 is the limit.</p>
<p>3 IBs or 3 APs??
3 per year or 3 per HS career…</p>
<p>are there any exceptions to the rule???
many schools do EXCEPTIONS…</p>
<p>3 APs/year </p>
<p>I’m pretty sure there are exceptions, but generally this rule was made because of the difficulty of accomplishing this (at my school, at least).</p>
<p>Most people in my school get Cs and Ds in them so they take over “slack” classes to get As and balance the GPA out…</p>
<p>if people are getting D’s in AP classes they shouldn’t be in them…</p>
<p>you can’t limit the IB classes, because IB won’t let your school have the program o_O … and you need 7 classes (6 2years, 1 1year) for the IB Diploma.</p>
<p>yes… but thats why many schools limit the number of IBs you can take to 7 and the number of APs you can take to 8
So everyone will have an opportunity for IB Diploma and National AP Scholar</p>