<p>Wow! What an honor though. I hope he has success with the others. </p>
<p>My S is doing the IB Diploma (6 IB classes + TOK and extended essay). Luckily, he had a good first quarter and goes to a small international school where they all know him and support his violin habit. The teachers, usually extremely rigorous and unforgiving, have been remarkably supportive of his audition absences (he has been out more than in school the last few weeks). This could have been a nightmare otherwise. I don’t know how he’ll do on his IB exams though after missing so much school. He has mock IB’s next week between IU and Oberlin - these determine his final term grades. Hopefully he’ll get into music school so those grades won’t matter!</p>