<p>My EE was due the first week in November, SAME week as SATs and my ED application for Princeton. </p>
<p>I am so looking forward to going to college!</p>
<p>Oh that’s crazy. Mine isn’t due til 17th January. I am so glad to be going to college next year. I got my college acceptance in November. Did you get into Princeton?</p>
<p>That’s great! What school?</p>
<p>I was deferred from Princeton.</p>
<p>Wake Forest. </p>
<p>Sorry about the deferral. Good luck in RD!</p>
<p>Oh, great school ! </p>
<p>Thanks, but they accepted a lot of great people and deferred a lot of great people as well. I am not sad, just bummed that I have to write 5 more essays along with all that IB work.</p>
<p>Thanks. I’m so excited to just get there and get away from IB. </p>
<p>I couldn’t imagine writing more essays and doing the IB. Good luck! Admissions is crazy. A really awesome kid at my school got deferred at Harvard. My boyfriend is applying to like 8 colleges- I don’t know how he does it with all the work on the side.</p>
<p>It’s definitely a good year for my school… so far we have one MIT ED and two Harvard EA’s in a graduating class of about 70, and that’s only the ones I’ve heard of.</p>
<p>That’s awesome. I think it will be a rough year for my school. Many of the teachers are unhappy that some of the top students aren’t applying to Ivies or anything.</p>
<p>We don’t usually have that many kids going to HYP, that I know of. Last year we sent two students to Stanford, two to Brown, two to Penn, and one to Columbia. Someone went MIT two years ago. The most popular choices here seem to be UVA, UMich, and McGill.</p>
<p>I don’t know the current seniors that well, but it’s exciting to hear about the good news. :)</p>
<p>My school almost never sends a lot of kids to one place- because they go all over the world: most go Germany, UK, US. </p>
<p>We usually have a Princeton, Columbia, Harvard. All the Boston colleges are popular. Most people end up really scattered.</p>
<p>I’d estimate that about 60% of my school’s grads stay in the US for college. Many of the kids who go abroad go to the UK or Canada, but others scatter all over the world. The list of university destinations is always interesting reading. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.wis.edu/schoollife/univers_collegesofwisgradu.asp[/url]”>http://www.wis.edu/schoollife/univers_collegesofwisgradu.asp</a></p>
<p>That was an interesting read. I wonder if my school publishes something like that <em>runs off to the website</em></p>
<p>I’d say about 1/3 each goes to US, UK and the rest is split up between Germany and other random countries.</p>
<p>Edit: I found some results, but from 2003. We’ve had better results since then- a couple Oxford Cambridges and some Ivies. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.mis-munich.de/general_information/our_graduates.html[/url]”>http://www.mis-munich.de/general_information/our_graduates.html</a></p>
<p>My school has that on its website, but it’s not really up-to-date. <a href=“http://www.aisb.ro/aboutus/acadprofile.html[/url]”>http://www.aisb.ro/aboutus/acadprofile.html</a> They don’t even have University of Pennsylvania or Carleton or Johns Hopkins Uni or Webster Vienna or University College London or London School of Economics or a WHOLE bunch of last year’s acceptances up there. What is up-to-date is the profile our school sends with every college app. Hmmm…lemme see if I can find it. (Sorry, just bursting with pride about last year’s seniors, my senior class. (doing post grad year) <em>prize oozing out my pores</em> :o )</p>
<p>Well, I found the profile. I’ll exclude the British and European schools; I’m assuming most ppl won’t know them. They were accepted at Albright College, Alvernia College<em>, Bennington, Carleton</em>, Clark Uni, Concordia College, Cornell College<em>, Franklin & Marshall, Hampshire, Hendrix, Hill College</em>, Johns Hopkins, Juniata, La Roche College, Macalester, Massachusetts College of Art, Rhodes College, Seattle Pacific Uni, Uni of Dayton, Uni of New Hampshire<em>, Uni of New Mexico</em>, UPenn<em>, Uni of Portland, Uni of Rochester, Vassar</em>, Voorhees*, Wellesley and Wesleyan Uni. Some schools have multiples acceptances like Carleton.</p>
<p>Uber-proud of them and now some of them are coming back to visit. <em>gleeful</em> Oh, man, I’ve missed them!</p>
<p><em>Goes off to email all of them</em></p>
<p>Edit: Scarlet: Is it spelled as “Bocconi” or “Boconi”?</p>
<p>So I’m a sophomore in high school and I am still debating on whether or not to take the IB diploma “challenge.” Or if I’m not up to taking the diploma, should I take the IB certificate, a less tedious program. Some info about me: I don’t have the patience to do homework for any time longer than 3-4 hours unless its an essay or something important. I procrastinate bad. I don’t study that much for tests but I get good grades. I’m not in honors math or science, so next year i am expecting a much less heavy workload than my AP english and global humanities. I just really want to know opinions from other people about if they enjoyed the program and how much time you have to work for during each school night.</p>
<p>THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS:
-Extended Essay</p>
<p>-CAS</p>
<p>-In each class you take, you do a “big” essay that counts toward your final grade.</p>
<p>-IB Exams</p>
<p>I may be missing things, but that is all… I am doing IB and it doesn’t make much of a different…honest…Just precieve it like an AP class and you will do fine.</p>
<p>Since IB is a programme and not just individual classes, we are given loads of work over the summer AND during spring and winter breaks. This might be another difference but also might depend on the school.</p>
<p>
That sounds remarkably like me… and I’ve managed to get by in full IB with a GPA of 6.6/7 (not comparable to the four-point scale – no one gets 7.0’s around here). I’m sure you’d be fine.</p>
<p>Okay, I’m really not saying this to sound cocky because all my friends do this, I do this, most of the people I know in IB do this…</p>
<p>our first draft of our world lit papers were something we wrote in an hour and a half the night before they were due.
our teacher gave them back to us today, we’ll probably spend about an hour editing them the night before we turn them back in…feburary something.</p>
<p>we started and finished our Extented Essay rough drafts in one day…and spent another 4 hours doing the final.</p>
<p>it’s not just me, seriously, that’s about how much time everyone I know spent on that stuff.
i have about 1-2 hours of homework/studying a night, our teachers are heavier on giving tests than assigning meaningless homework.</p>
<p>is it really that much work for you guys?</p>
<p>I’ve been back at school for three days after break, and these are my assignments right now, that I can remember:</p>
<p>Chemistry HL
- 3 labs
- 1 essay
- 2 worksheets (5 pages each) with questions from past IB exams
- reading</p>
<p>English A1 HL
- 1 passage commentary
- 1 personal essay
- 3 pages of literary analysis questions
- reading</p>
<p>French A1 HL
- 1 passage commentary
- reading</p>
<p>Mathematics SL
- problem sets
- test next week</p>
<p>Biology SL
- reading</p>
<p>History SL
- 1 worksheet
- reading</p>
<p>I’d say that’s a fair amount of work… but people who don’t take Chem HL are generally much better off.</p>