<p>How much influence is the IB Program on your acceptance at an Ivy League university? If I were to take 5-6 AP classes per year (junior/senior) in high school vs. do the IB program, would a university such as Harvard place more emphasis on my application? (assuming I had good SAT scores and many EC’s)</p>
<p>There was a rather lengthy thread about this in the Harvard forum.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=242813[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=242813</a></p>
<p>And to sum up the lengthy thread on the Harvard Forum, it depends. The local reputation of your high school–and its reputation to college admission officers–is much more important than whether the high school classes have the AP or the IB brand name. There are good and bad implementations of both brand names.</p>
<p>I’ve talked to adcoms from UPenn, Harvard, and Stanford. </p>
<p>None of them value IB over AP or vice versa. They really, really don’t have a preference.</p>
<p>Alot of people in either program root for it. You can see this by the number of IB kids who post about how wonderful IB is compared to anything and the number of AP kids who say not really, myself included. </p>
<p>However: No, it makes no difference. I was in your same dilemma and went for APs+honors+dual enrollment (total of 11 classes per year) instead of IB. </p>
<p>Personally, I think my curriculum is way more impressive than that of an IB student but then again, I designed it that way so no wonder. </p>
<p>Furthermore, go see the college acceptances threads. See the Ivy/really top notch schools. See how many are IBs and how many APs. It would surprise you that alot of the people accepted are in fact in AP and that surprisingly, they got it with not that many APs (about, say, 7).</p>
<p>What makes it is the ECs, your passions, your story, and (to a certain extend) your scores. AP or IB makes no difference as long as you take an equal number of them (ex. 2 APs doesnt equal 6 IBs)</p>
<p>I also am in IB. The classes are harder in the sense that they do go very much in depth in the curriculum, more so then the AP classes. For example, most of our students easily pass the AP Bio exam than the IB Bio because they are overprepared. Also IB does has strict requirements to graduate. Examples would be the 4000 word extended essay, the 150 CAS Service Hours, and the TOK essays (and the insane load of work that comes with IB Lit haha). I think these things are also factored in when colleges look at your application. Then again, I really have no idea…</p>