<p>LarryQ, is this school in the US? If it isn’t, it may be that even US colleges will pay attention to predicted IB scores.</p>
<p>Also, it’s my understanding that a student can’t take a HL exam until the end of 12th grade–so even if he takes math HL this year, he may have to wait until the following year for the test. How this cuts, I’m not sure.</p>
<p>I have to say that I would consider having him take neither bio nor Spanish–he has more than enough academic classes for any US college. Could he take something like art, or chorus, or photography? 8 periods of IB and other hard academic classes is just too much. Again, I’m also curious as to why Geography is the chosen social studies course. It would be my guess that this would not be the most impressive option for US colleges.</p>
<p>Also: my son got absolutely nothing in terms of credit for any of his AP or IB grades, except that his AP score in French got him out of taking the school’s placement test. And since he was an early admit, he knew this in advance and didn’t take all the AP tests he could have.</p>