i plan on attending usc for the fall of 2015. i was curious how serious usc is with my actual ib scores? My school requires us to send our exam scores. will my usc rescind me if i dont do well or get close to my predicted? please note i am not a full ib diploma student but still plan on taking exams
anyone???
In the first place, do not do a shameless bump after 8 minutes.
In the second place, assuming your HS transcript shows grades and does not rely purely on IB scores, neither USC, nor any other US university, will rescind you for your IB scores regardless if you are a full diploma student or not.
USC may not even want your final IB scores, if you’ve already sent regular grades from those courses.
thanks… thing is my school requires us to send them… so they will know…
@Fighton96 Yeah it’s still important to do the exams well for IB. They only count your HL’s though for credit. If you stray too far from your intended score, you could be rescinded. Your school will usually try to defend you if the university asks “why a sudden drop in this kid’s grade?”
Do you go to school in the U.S.? Do you have regular letter grades in addition to IB scores?
USC Says:
I.B. Credits:
Six (6) elective units apiece are earned for scores of five (5) or above on high-level exams;
or
Twenty (20) elective units if you earn the I.B. diploma with a score of 30 or higher. General Education credit is available for some history and science exams.
So you can get credit for your HLs. As long as your grades are good, I think you are okay.
@polarium whats straying to far from predicted? im not even full diploma. @Hunt yes my grades are based on the american curriculum with regular letter grades… some told me that colleges dont even care if ppl failed their exams…
@Fighton96 In my school, it’s full IB Diploma. Like if for example you get a 30/42 when you applied to the university, but got 26/42 as your final score, that’s a 4 point difference and that’s quite far from your predicted scores.
I don’t know what your school does with a non-full IB program, but it should be similar to the real IB grading system.
@polarium its different because at my school a non full diploma student can still take the ib exams even though i do not take 3hls and 3sls… my school is based on letter grades but they still send my predicted scores…
For USC specifically: http://www.usc.edu/dept/ARR/private/forms/articulation_documents/IB_info_sheet_may2011.pdf
Colleges which accept IB credit mostly just look at specific exams and scores to give credit units, subject credit, or advanced placement. Some, like USC, also give credit units for the full diploma.
@ucbalumnus thanks a lot… so my question is will usc care if i dont do well on the exam? i take hl chem and everything else is sl courses…
@ucbalumnus i also do not even plan to get credit for hl chem cuz i know i wont get a 5 or above… thing is my school requires that they send our scores and therfore usc will see them…
USC engineering accepts IB chemistry HL score of 6 for CHEM 105a, according to http://viterbinotes.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/AP-IB-Sheet-2014.pdf (if you are in another division, check with the division or major to see if that applies to your intended major).
Otherwise, if you want to take CHEM 105a, you have to take a placement test covering high school chemistry: https://sait.usc.edu/academicsupport/cta/placement_chem.shtml
@ucbalumnus I do not plan on taking any chem classes… Im wondering if USC will CARE how well I do on the IB exams!!!
This issue always causes confusion, because in other countries, admission to college is based on the predicted IB scores, and conditional on the final scores being sufficiently close to those scores. It is also my understanding that some US universities may use this procedure for international applicants who are IB students.
For students at high schools in the United States, this procedure is usually not followed. Rather, what matters for admission is letter grades, not IB scores, and the predicted score is irrelevant. Thus, typically, the final IB score will not matter UNLESS you want to use it for credit or acceleration. It is unusual for anybody to be rescinded, but it sometimes happens if the final semester letter grades are very low–and some colleges require certain prerequisites, so failing a course could also get you rescinded.
But it’s hard to be sure what any specific college does–there is no standard rule. The best thing to do is to call the college directly and ask them about it. And then try to do as well as you can on the IB exams.