<p>What is the range of IB scores of people who have been accepted to Columbia University</p>
<p>People dont have IB scores before admission. Columbia does nt admit based on predictions.</p>
<p>what do you mean columbia does not admit based on admission</p>
<p>sorry i mean what do you mean columbia does not admit based on predicted grades</p>
<p>Predicted grades have zero value for a college since they have nt been earned.</p>
<p>Colleges admit students based on everything else including the fact that the school expects you to do well when they provide you with a predictor. The predictor does have a certain value if the school providing it has some track record with the specific college in the past of being accurate with any previous admits.</p>
<p>However, it does nt mean much to the college to assume a predictor has any value unless the admission is conditional and will be revoked if you don’t meet it. This is usually the case with British colleges where they admit you conditionally with a requirement for a specific IB score. That is not the case with colleges in US.</p>
<p>But… I know people in an IB school that say the only grades they send are their IB predicted scores. So if colleges don’t consider that, what do they use as a determinant for academic capability?</p>
<p>How many do you that got admitted to ivy league with just a predicted IB score and nothing else that resembles a transcript?</p>
<p>From what I know, the IB schools do send their internal grade reports too, i.e., their semester/annual grades upto the point of application. There is no requirement in college that only IB or AP is a true exam and any internal grading in your school is considered acceptable.</p>
<p>US does have a lot of schools that don’t offer IB or AP exams. Most of these school students are treated on par, with grades from the schools and recommendations from their teachers. There is also a track record of the school based on previous admits and where the school has sent their kids, by which the adcoms can determine the rigor of the academics and use the standardized test scores for validation.</p>
<p>So if you score 500 on SAT Math II and your school says you are a math genius, it is not that hard for them to rule you out but if your score is 750 and your school says you are in top 5%, the adcoms know your school has academic rigor.</p>
<p>no, if your school has a record of giving out accurate predictions, i.e. prediction is close to final, then Columbia does look very closely at predicted grades, it is perhaps the most important piece of information they use. If your school is new or if predicted grades have been inflated in the past, then they will usually not care much about predictions. Columbia does also get a transcript and knows how are you doing.</p>
<p>For all who complain that predicted grades are subjective etc. It’s little different from gpa, which is also plagued with subjectivity and has no standard across high schools.</p>
<p>how would you convert IB grades to GPA</p>
<p>I think you need ~38+/42 and 40+/45 to be in range, a strong candidate would have 40+/42 and 42+/45</p>
<p>The school I’m thinking of definitely sends a number of kids to Ivy Leagues, T20 schools, as well as Oxbridge. They also have strong reputation in the region for being one of the top schools, so I imagine adcoms trust the predicted IB scores from them.</p>
<p>lol. Like a college bases admissions on mere speculation.</p>
<p>…although I wouldn’t put it passed them</p>
<p>^predicted scores are speculation based on actual results, most high schools predict very close to realized scores, if your highschool has a record of predicting accurately then Columbia will treat predicted scores just like gpa. What is gpa afterall? it’s based on a teacher’s subjective judgement of how you have performed, there’s no consistency between schools, yet colleges take it very seriously… when you have few options it’s easy but useless to ridicule them.</p>