<p>If you’re a diploma student, then your predicted score + grade transcript are probably the first thing they’d look at, but getting a great score doesn’t guarantee admission in anyway, nor does not having a perfect 42 spoil your chances. This guy from my school got into Yale with a midterm of 38/39 or so, whereas another got deferred from UPenn with a midterm of 41/42. So I don’t think you can really correlate IB scores with admissions once you cross the 40/45 boundary.</p>