Couple of questions

orjr
Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:39:41 +0000

zoosermom - and maybe Bunsen Burner – your schools sound a bit like ours. My S is now saying maybe he should opt out of a few IB classes as our school doesn’t weight any grades at all and the val and sal are often kids with no honors or IB. The school offers only IB, no AP but of course you don’t have to do the whole diploma. He is thinking of scaling back to regular classes in History and english with IB classes in science, math and french. He thinks this will increase his GPA and rank. What will colleges think of this? His goal is to get into a private school with good merit aid, or a public honors college. Is his plan a good one? or should he stick out the all IB and maybe end up around 3.5??? Ya’ll sound experienced in this!