AP International Diploma: does it really help?

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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)</p>