Does IB prepare students for college significantly better, or is it just more work?

My S did attend the same IB as Hunt’s. S2 felt he was really well prepared for college, and as I mentioned, he says he’d still do it again. My regret is that he needed to accomplish those things with less structural assistance from us. We had tried to get accommodations from the school, but no dice. The administration was not inclined to give accommodations to kids who qualified for a program that took only about 15% of the applicants. This was a big problem when he got to college – he believed he didn’t deserve accommodations, and so never learned how to create his own. YMMV – the IB education was excellent.