IB Diploma vs. Courses you can't fit in?

Applying to College
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<p>Our high school (urban, public, poor) has just started offering a full IB program. My D is a junior, full diploma candidate, doing HL Hist, HL Eng, HL Drama, and HL Bio, plus SL Latin and SL Math. She has also completed 4 years of French (started in MS) and has been in highest choir each year. </p>

<p>Due to school’s old requirements for the science series, her involvement wtih choir, and our slightly limited IB offerings, she will be applying to colleges as a full IB diploma candidate, but she will have taken sophomore bio, then two years of AP/IB bio; NO chem or NO physics. </p>

<p>She is a humanities person - very strong and interested in English, writing, languages, drama, history, philosophy…ie, not pre-med! </p>

<p>How will highly selective colleges view this course choice? - she doesn’t want to give up on the full IB program (ie, drop the bio her senior year) just to take chem, which will not give her any IB credit.</p>

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<p>I would inform them of your situation…make it clear that taking an additional science wasn’t possible. </p>

<p>Of course, you could always try and take some sort of correspondance course or some such…but that’s probably just a waste of time. </p>

<p>Don’t minimize the significance of 2 years of bio, either…that’s no joke. </p>

<p>The important thing is to take classes in which you’re interested. Not worth the time of taking a science class that will just be blown off/cheated through.</p>