Do IB grads get free tuition?

imdamom
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:48:11 +0000

Perhaps your friend is confusing the fact that IB Diploma holders get free tuition at public colleges in Florida through the state’s Bright Futures program(although its hard to imagine how he got to Harvard and Stanford from UF and FSU). There are much easier ways to get a Bright Futures Scholarship than by completing an IB diploma, though, as anyone with a 3.5 weighted GPA and a 1270 SAT/28 ACT also gets it. Those who fail to get the IB diploma but complete the IB curriculum need only the test scores to qualify, so it isn’t usually the diploma that is getting them the scholarship anyway. Most have sealed up the Bright Futures scholarship long before they find out in July whether they got the IB Diploma or not.
If you go to a private college in Florida, Bright Futures pays an equivalent dollar amount. I guess that’s why the IBO scholarship site now lists every college in Florida.
[Scholarships for IB Diploma Programme students](http://www.ibo.org/diploma/recognition/scholarships/)