IB Programs

[Anonymous]

RMIB college list:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/high-schools/r-w/rmhs/ib/ib-college-list-21-24-.docx.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Regarding IB exam and college credit, DC took IB physics and math HL and said they got 8 credits for each (scored 7 on both) in college. They said that most of the AP content was covered in IB classes, so they just self studied the small portion of the AP exam that wasn't covered in the IB classes. For every IB class they took, they took a corresponding IB and AP exam. They got 58 credits total. They said if they hadn't taken all those IB exams, they wouldn't have had that many credits going in. They scored all 5s in their AP exams.

Why do you think colleges don’t give as much credit to IB courses if the difference is a small portion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regarding IB exam and college credit, DC took IB physics and math HL and said they got 8 credits for each (scored 7 on both) in college. They said that most of the AP content was covered in IB classes, so they just self studied the small portion of the AP exam that wasn't covered in the IB classes. For every IB class they took, they took a corresponding IB and AP exam. They got 58 credits total. They said if they hadn't taken all those IB exams, they wouldn't have had that many credits going in. They scored all 5s in their AP exams.

Why do you think colleges don’t give as much credit to IB courses if the difference is a small portion?

DP. This wasn’t our experience when DD went to college. She received more credit for her IB coursework than her AP coursework, and she had similarly high scores.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Regarding IB exam and college credit, DC took IB physics and math HL and said they got 8 credits for each (scored 7 on both) in college. They said that most of the AP content was covered in IB classes, so they just self studied the small portion of the AP exam that wasn't covered in the IB classes. For every IB class they took, they took a corresponding IB and AP exam. They got 58 credits total. They said if they hadn't taken all those IB exams, they wouldn't have had that many credits going in. They scored all 5s in their AP exams.

Why do you think colleges don’t give as much credit to IB courses if the difference is a small portion?

what are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Regarding IB exam and college credit, DC took IB physics and math HL and said they got 8 credits for each (scored 7 on both) in college. They said that most of the AP content was covered in IB classes, so they just self studied the small portion of the AP exam that wasn't covered in the IB classes. For every IB class they took, they took a corresponding IB and AP exam. They got 58 credits total. They said if they hadn't taken all those IB exams, they wouldn't have had that many credits going in. They scored all 5s in their AP exams.

Why do you think colleges don’t give as much credit to IB courses if the difference is a small portion?

what are you talking about?

An you tell what the college is?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Regarding IB exam and college credit, DC took IB physics and math HL and said they got 8 credits for each (scored 7 on both) in college. They said that most of the AP content was covered in IB classes, so they just self studied the small portion of the AP exam that wasn't covered in the IB classes. For every IB class they took, they took a corresponding IB and AP exam. They got 58 credits total. They said if they hadn't taken all those IB exams, they wouldn't have had that many credits going in. They scored all 5s in their AP exams.

Why do you think colleges don’t give as much credit to IB courses if the difference is a small portion?

what are you talking about?

An you tell what the college is?

Or what classes get credit with IB but none with AP score of 5? I’m skeptical but open to be corrected.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Regarding IB exam and college credit, DC took IB physics and math HL and said they got 8 credits for each (scored 7 on both) in college. They said that most of the AP content was covered in IB classes, so they just self studied the small portion of the AP exam that wasn't covered in the IB classes. For every IB class they took, they took a corresponding IB and AP exam. They got 58 credits total. They said if they hadn't taken all those IB exams, they wouldn't have had that many credits going in. They scored all 5s in their AP exams.

Why do you think colleges don’t give as much credit to IB courses if the difference is a small portion?

DP. This wasn’t our experience when DD went to college. She received more credit for her IB coursework than her AP coursework, and she had similarly high scores.

College and courses? I’ll wait…

[Anonymous]

Don’t hold your breath, it’s made up. It’s the same poster that’s the Ivy admissions officer…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:selected RMIB class of 2024 college attending

Brown (4)
Columbia (3)
Cornell (9)
duke (3)
Georgetown (6)
harvard (2)
MIT (2)
Johns Hopkins (2)
Chicago (4)
Penn (1)
Yale (2)
Northwestern (1)
Princeton (2)
Stanford (1)

The OP was asking about IB Programs, not about RMIB specifically, where kids do AP Calculus BC in 10th grade and take over 5
AP’s on average in addition to the IBD.

Now do Blair magnet, which is a more apt comparison. Similar cohort, but far more rigorous curriculum, and also better college admissions outcomes. That’s if you want to keeps the discussion centered on magnets.

Really curious on why some of these posters are so invested in deceiving others about how great the IB programs are. Pretending RMIB is representative for generic IB programs is simply dishonest. Great if your kid went there and did well but don’t make it seem like RMIB and Kennedy are the the same.

You seem to have as much of an agenda as the RMIB boosters do.

I am the PP with 8th grader who posted the college list and I find contribution from both sides here to be really helpful. It doesn't matter and it might even be a plus that true believers are putting forward their strongest arguments, even if those are, individually, one-sided.

Thank you everyone for the effort you put here. We are new to MCPS and I found this particular board to be extremely helpful. Honestly, I am not sure what I would do without you.

Wow, you find the MCPS section of this site useful? Where are you coming from? DCPS? Maybe that section is worse. (We used to be in DPCS many year ago.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Regarding IB exam and college credit, DC took IB physics and math HL and said they got 8 credits for each (scored 7 on both) in college. They said that most of the AP content was covered in IB classes, so they just self studied the small portion of the AP exam that wasn't covered in the IB classes. For every IB class they took, they took a corresponding IB and AP exam. They got 58 credits total. They said if they hadn't taken all those IB exams, they wouldn't have had that many credits going in. They scored all 5s in their AP exams.

Why do you think colleges don’t give as much credit to IB courses if the difference is a small portion?

what are you talking about?

An you tell what the college is?

I don't even know what you are trying to say

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regarding IB exam and college credit, DC took IB physics and math HL and said they got 8 credits for each (scored 7 on both) in college. They said that most of the AP content was covered in IB classes, so they just self studied the small portion of the AP exam that wasn't covered in the IB classes. For every IB class they took, they took a corresponding IB and AP exam. They got 58 credits total. They said if they hadn't taken all those IB exams, they wouldn't have had that many credits going in. They scored all 5s in their AP exams.

Why do you think colleges don’t give as much credit to IB courses if the difference is a small portion?

what are you talking about?

An you tell what the college is?

I don't even know what you are trying to say

Can you tell what the college is that gives credit to IB classes but not to AP classes for the same course? Which courses?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regarding IB exam and college credit, DC took IB physics and math HL and said they got 8 credits for each (scored 7 on both) in college. They said that most of the AP content was covered in IB classes, so they just self studied the small portion of the AP exam that wasn't covered in the IB classes. For every IB class they took, they took a corresponding IB and AP exam. They got 58 credits total. They said if they hadn't taken all those IB exams, they wouldn't have had that many credits going in. They scored all 5s in their AP exams.

Why do you think colleges don’t give as much credit to IB courses if the difference is a small portion?

what are you talking about?

An you tell what the college is?

I don't even know what you are trying to say

Can you tell what the college is that gives credit to IB classes but not to AP classes for the same course? Which courses?

Umm the statement above that is arguing that colleges give less credit to IB than AP because they consider the curriculum incomplete, not vice versa.

Maybe you need to work on your critical reading and analysis skills?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Regarding IB exam and college credit, DC took IB physics and math HL and said they got 8 credits for each (scored 7 on both) in college. They said that most of the AP content was covered in IB classes, so they just self studied the small portion of the AP exam that wasn't covered in the IB classes. For every IB class they took, they took a corresponding IB and AP exam. They got 58 credits total. They said if they hadn't taken all those IB exams, they wouldn't have had that many credits going in. They scored all 5s in their AP exams.

This seems to say that IB gets credits but not AP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regarding IB exam and college credit, DC took IB physics and math HL and said they got 8 credits for each (scored 7 on both) in college. They said that most of the AP content was covered in IB classes, so they just self studied the small portion of the AP exam that wasn't covered in the IB classes. For every IB class they took, they took a corresponding IB and AP exam. They got 58 credits total. They said if they hadn't taken all those IB exams, they wouldn't have had that many credits going in. They scored all 5s in their AP exams.

Why do you think colleges don’t give as much credit to IB courses if the difference is a small portion?

DP. This wasn’t our experience when DD went to college. She received more credit for her IB coursework than her AP coursework, and she had similarly high scores.

This also states that IB coursework gets more credit than AP coursework.

It’s just made up anyways, since it’s not true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The IB program at Einstein was a disaster for my kid. His English and History classes leading up to it didn't have hardly any writing, so he was not prepared for the level of writing required by the IB classes. And his college did not give him any credit for his IB scores (5 to 7). I wish we had gone all AP.

Do more feel this way than not?