"Predicted IB Exam Scores"

VickiSoCal
Sun, 01 Oct 2017 19:07:45 +0000

The sequence of events for my daughter at a US IB school applying to UK schools was this:

Beginning of senior year she filled out the UCAS and applied to 5 UK schools. She put her existing 2 IB and 5 AP scores in. The app asked for predicted scores for all exams she would be taking end of senior year. (4 IB and 5 AP) these would be self reported. She asked her guidance counselor what to do he said leave them blank “we don’t do predicted scores”.

4 of the UK schools gave her a decision without any predicted scores. (2 unconditional, 2 conditional based on senior year scores) One school came back and said they needed the predicted scores.

Her guidance counselor reported those predicted scores in an email. That university rejected her. (We really have no idea why, it honestly makes little sense that the lowest ranked of the 5 UK universities she applied to was the only one that rejected her)

She is currently a first year student at St. Andrews and very happy so far.

None of the above went through IBO. And since St. Andrews accepted her unconditionally and we had already enrolled her and paid deposit before her final IB and AP scores went out, I’m not sure if those were sent to them. We did not request they be sent and St. Andrews never asked for them.

She is the first student form her high school in 8 years to go to a UK university, so the process was not terribly familiar to her counselor and teachers despite them being an IB school.