UCLA Class of 2024 Discussion

10s4life
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 18:13:57 +0000

@zcx0603 I haven’t heard anything about the IB scandal. I actually didn’t even know there was a scandal. I wouldn’t worry because IB scores were not used in the admissions process (same with AP). The only disadvantage you may face is once you show up and your scores are in the system, you may not get credit for certain classes. But UCLA takes almost no IB credit. If you pull up the chart most of the credits say “unassigned” that means its empty credit and does absolutely nothing. If it says “intro” then that means it MAY fulfill an intro course only if your Major requires that class. For example you could get Intro chemistry credit if you get a certain score on the IB exam for majors that need intro chem. But the intro chem course isn’t Chem 20A or Chem 14A its the chem that is for non science majors, basically making it useless. IB and AP courses cannot be used for GE credit which is what the IB and AP credit would be most useful for. Also unless you’re engineering all the majors at UCLA are so short that with no ap or ib credit you can graduate in 4 years or earlier with only 3 classes a quarter. Econ is such a short major that people have to take filler classes just to graduate.

Long story short, don’t worry since IB wasn’t going to get you much credit to begin with and UCLA is unlikely to make any adjustments since they made an AP announcement that all AP credit charts remain the same. And UCLA never really gave IB credit in the first place. Congrats on finishing though, I heard its fairly difficult. Feel free to reach out if this wasnt too clear, its kinda hard to explain sometimes since the chart is misleading, many people think they’ll get more credit than they actually get (Prob so people keep taking these exams).