Does this carry the same prestige as a National AP scholar award?

hwpan888
Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:32:17 +0000

“That is IF you scored a 7 on all of those subjects which I highly doubt you will.” Sounds like a bitter IB student. I kid, I kid. But yeah, if I’ve already survived 2 years at the top prep school in the world, why can’t I score in the top 10% of a bunch of kids, some of who don’t even speak english well?

In all seriousness, why do you say that I have to score 7’s on all my IB subject exams? I already have 5 out of the 8 AP exams needed for national AP scholar (which btw are some of the hardest you can take- I mean Calculus BC and Physics C is a killer with a capital K). Considering I took those exams while sitting for “mock” final exams for all 6 of my IB exams (Chemistry HL and Spanish SL basically make it 7 AP exams at least) and the SAT and ACT (ACT: 35; SAT: 2320 = pretty good), I would think decent predictions (and not scores) such as 6’s would more than be sufficient to be considered to have a courseload as difficult, or more difficult than that of a national AP scholar. (Yes, I know I sound terribly conceited at the moment, but I’m defending my hurt pride slash trying to persuade people that my situation may be quite different from traditional AP students who sit down for an entire year in an AP-intensive course before taking the exam. I didn’t have the one or two weeks that most AP students had to study, and only study for the exam).

Any more opinions? I’m calling out all IB students- what kind of score did you get for your predictions, and did they help you in getting into the college you wanted? Also, is 2nd year IB more difficult than 1st year IB? I’m considering taking AP Psychology, AP Comparative Governments, AP Chemistry, AP English Language, AP Spanish, AP Euro, and AP Environmental Science next year along with sitting my IB exams just because AP is pretty basic (I just have to know 70% of the material). I know there are time conflicts, but I’ve already arranged to take several exams earlier so that my time schedule doesn’t conflict.