Is IB worth it?

lynda
Sat, 19 Mar 2005 04:59:58 +0000

snow-wing: I know exactly what you mean by the 82% Vs 92% thing… there’s this girl that I tutor in my school for physics chemistry and math, and her GPA is about .4 higher than mine… unweighted (there’s no such thing as weighing gpa here) she’s certificate, at least I think she is, and taking regular science courses. it makes me jealous to see her grades at the end of term and regret ever getting myself into the IB mess.
However, for most of the time I still think it was a good choice to take IB. altough the grades are definetly are down side, I did get to meet alot of interesting people coming to this new school and realize that how limited my old schools was ( especially in the science area) the program really offered me the chance to boarden my knowledge(whee ToK) and its been an amazing experience for me. hey what better way is there to learn stress management than IB ?
in the end even if I do not get in my dream schools, at least IB is offering a rather safe addmission to UBC and waterloo (32 total for UBC and 5 in all courses for waterloo?) so in a sense its all worth it .