<p>From personal experience, I urge you to definitely not switch schools. IB is just not worth it. If you work your butt off in IB then all it is going to get you is essentially the same recognition that AP gets you from colleges. So yeah that’s great if you really dislike your current school. However, if you don’t do particularly amazing in IB, then you not only won’t get good grades, but even if you do pass the exams then you won’t even get college credit for them.</p>
<p>IB really is not that challenging. The main reason I actually took it was because my IB schedule was so much easier than the AP alternative. In order to do IB you have to give up so much though… the opportunities to take other classes that you might actually be interested in or decide later on that you’re interested in, the potential for college credit (don’t even try to tell me you think you can get IB credit in college), your friends at your current school, the time to take outside college classes, etc.</p>
<p>I know people are going to argue with me about this, but basically IB is just not worth it until colleges start actually taking notice of what it is, because face it, many colleges do not even know what IB is and even the ones that claim to really like IB candidates can’t give too much preference to IB kids just because not everyone has that opportunity so it’s pretty much equal to AP.</p>
<p>That ran on a bit and I don’t mean to sound bitter, my IB experience has actually been quite fine, I just don’t feel that it’s worth it and wouldn’t go through it again.</p>