Nominated for the IB Diploma Programme?

cxprus
Fri, 22 Jan 2016 07:08:57 +0000

I was nominated for the IB Diploma Programme, apparently. I don’t know how it happened but I was summoned and a few kids were summoned, but however it was a meeting with the IB Coordinator and the nominated students based on teacher recommendations and GPA but however there was a informational meeting about it and the requirements and stuff like that and they showed us the courses offered and such, but the question is… Should I do it?

There is these juniors that I sit next to during AP Spanish Language and they told me to not do it because you will lose your friends, you will most likely fail and you will have no life and you have to sacrifice ASB and all the do is watch films (I assume TOK) and then people are failing. But is it all true? I need answers and apparently the UC system will give you college credit if you receive a score of 30 out of 45. I am so confused, I mean this semester I received at 3.5 GPA this past semester and I’m so skeptical and some friends said they are doing it next year so I need advice.

These are the junior year courses if I do IB route:
IB English HL 1
IB Spanish HL 1
IB History HL 1 (Gov/Econ credits inside)
Theory Of Knowledge (technically a semester, but 4 semesters in order to support students for the Extended Essay)
AP Chemistry or AP Physics (senior year it’s the SL version)
AP Psychology or IB Visual Arts HL 1
Algebra 2 or Pre-Calculus or AP Statistics
Non-IB Class

These are the junior year courses (I want to do/required) if I do AP route:
AP Spanish Literature
AP US History
AP English Language
Algebra 2
Introduction to Psychology
Chemistry
AP Studio Art
Leadership

I mean as for the CAS hours spiel, I mean I haven’t done a lot of service hours which is needed for college applications so that might work, but however will I have time to focus on my SAT/ACT preparation? That’s the main concern and I have this program called, Upward Bound and they offer a SAT/ACT course for juniors but it’s not certain if they will offer it next year, but it could be possible?

As for teacher opinions, my English teacher told me to do it. My Bio teacher said if I’m taking 3-4 AP’s then I should just do the program but I kind of don’t want to do Spanish Literature because the instructor, might not prepare you for the exam.