Columbia's stance on the IB program

viva_sweet_love
Mon, 14 May 2007 01:22:15 +0000

It honestly all depends on what your school offers. If you can challenge yourself more with IB with your school’s curriculum, do so. If your school offers full fledged AP and IB programs as mine does, choose whatever is more challenging to you…they will not look down on you for choosing AP. Some people find they can take a curriculum that looks more challenging with IB instead of AP (i.e. least number of HLs possible, SL math, SL science) so that can often work in your favor instead of taking many APs. One cannot be favored over the other unless you’re discussing individual curriculums and class choices. I know my AP schedule is more challenging than other IB schedules, and that some people’s AP schedules are less challenging than other IB schedules.

To sum it up: whatever is most challenging, or looks the most challenging, is the best.