IB and AP conflict

Bard141
Thu, 02 Mar 2017 16:55:32 +0000

So I’m deciding on either or not to transfer into the IB diploma program for my junior year, but what exactly does it give you in which AP doesn’t?

I’m not planning on going out of the country when considering how the best universities are in the U.S, my dream university is either Rice, in which is basically my next door neighbor here in Houston, or Stanford, the only thing good about California.

Now I’m in a case where the Sophomores of this year will be the first class to be placed in the IB Diploma program since it’ll be initiated by the time we enter our junior year, but it just seems like a waste of time when compared to AP courses in our school, not to mention that it doesn’t offer a Physics C equivalent. I’m striving to be in the chemical engineering field, and Rice University sees IB Math HL as the equivalent to Single Variable Calculus l, while AP Calculus BC is considered the equivalent to Single Variable Calculus l AND ll and it’s been like that since 2006 so I don’t expect that to change.

So what I’m asking is do top universities really care if you take IB rather than AP or do they see them as equals and it doesn’t affect your chances of getting into a university at all? The reason this affects me is because I’m planning to transfer to a high school that only offers the AP program and is a newly upgraded school, but my current school will be offering IB next year and if it increases my acceptance rate I’ll definitely stay.