<p>My IB graduate’s program looked like this:</p>
<p>Junior Year:
SL/AP Spanish
HL English (year 1)
HL Euro (year 1)
AP AB Calc
TOK
AP/SL Micro/Macroeconomics
Honors Physics (a concession to sanity, and I don’t think it made a difference to colleges since he is not a STEM guy)</p>
<p>Senior year:
TOK 1st semester
HL/AP Bio (taught as a double period senior year)
SL Philosophy
HL English (year 2)
HL Euro (year 2)
AP Stat (took SL Math Studies exam)</p>
<p>Yes, he took seven IB courses. Also took 11 APs to make sure he got credit for all that work wherever he wound up attending. This does not include time spent on the EE, TOK paper, college apps or his ECs (fall helmet sport and captain of debate, among others). His HS’s program was VERY intense and designed to be a pressure cooker in ways that were not always in the students’ best interests.</p>
<p>The pre-IB Chem and Bio classes at his school was very good. He took the SL/AP Enviro class as an AP sophomore year because a) he was interested in the topic b) he knew IB wouldn’t allow HL Bio and SL Enviro and c) he knew there wouldn’t be room in his schedule later. The school also taught AP Gov’t and USH a la IB in 9th and 10th grades so the kids would get used to the IB expectations. </p>
<p>He got a fabulous education. He was also rather burned out and stressed out by the end.</p>