IB program and college admissions?

[Anonymous]

RM-IB's Class of 2013 did very well in the college admissions process if judging by the overall acceptances at each of the Ivies, top SLACs (Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, etc.), top Elites (Stanford, MIT, Duke, etc.), and the number of merit scholarship awarded. In fact, at least 4 students are headed to Yale in the fall, and at least one student is headed to every other top 10 ranked school -- and those who aren't, are headed to UMD/UMBC or the private (JHU, WUSTL, NYU, etc.) or public school (UVA, Pitt., Wm. & Mary, etc.) to which they received a full or substantial scholarship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RM-IB's Class of 2013 did very well in the college admissions process if judging by the overall acceptances at each of the Ivies, top SLACs (Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, etc.), top Elites (Stanford, MIT, Duke, etc.), and the number of merit scholarship awarded. In fact, at least 4 students are headed to Yale in the fall, and at least one student is headed to every other top 10 ranked school -- and those who aren't, are headed to UMD/UMBC or the private (JHU, WUSTL, NYU, etc.) or public school (UVA, Pitt., Wm. & Mary, etc.) to which they received a full or substantial scholarship.

This sounds like Blair, down to 4 students headed to Yale next fall.

[Anonymous]

Anyone know similar for the Fairfax county schools? Including lower ranked schools like Mt. Vernon and Edison?
Thanks!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:RM-IB's Class of 2013 did very well in the college admissions process if judging by the overall acceptances at each of the Ivies, top SLACs (Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, etc.), top Elites (Stanford, MIT, Duke, etc.), and the number of merit scholarship awarded. In fact, at least 4 students are headed to Yale in the fall, and at least one student is headed to every other top 10 ranked school -- and those who aren't, are headed to UMD/UMBC or the private (JHU, WUSTL, NYU, etc.) or public school (UVA, Pitt., Wm. & Mary, etc.) to which they received a full or substantial scholarship.

This sounds like Blair, down to 4 students headed to Yale next fall.

Does Blair have an IB program? If not, what's your point?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:RM-IB's Class of 2013 did very well in the college admissions process if judging by the overall acceptances at each of the Ivies, top SLACs (Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, etc.), top Elites (Stanford, MIT, Duke, etc.), and the number of merit scholarship awarded. In fact, at least 4 students are headed to Yale in the fall, and at least one student is headed to every other top 10 ranked school -- and those who aren't, are headed to UMD/UMBC or the private (JHU, WUSTL, NYU, etc.) or public school (UVA, Pitt., Wm. & Mary, etc.) to which they received a full or substantial scholarship.

This sounds like Blair, down to 4 students headed to Yale next fall.

Does Blair have an IB program? If not, what's your point?

The point goes directly to OP's question about whether IB is somehow favored in college admissions. RM's admissions results are great - but so are admissions results from local non-IB programs.

Sorry if this rains on your parade, RM IB mom. That must explain the snippiness.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:RM-IB's Class of 2013 did very well in the college admissions process if judging by the overall acceptances at each of the Ivies, top SLACs (Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, etc.), top Elites (Stanford, MIT, Duke, etc.), and the number of merit scholarship awarded. In fact, at least 4 students are headed to Yale in the fall, and at least one student is headed to every other top 10 ranked school -- and those who aren't, are headed to UMD/UMBC or the private (JHU, WUSTL, NYU, etc.) or public school (UVA, Pitt., Wm. & Mary, etc.) to which they received a full or substantial scholarship.

This sounds like Blair, down to 4 students headed to Yale next fall.

Does Blair have an IB program? If not, what's your point?

The point goes directly to OP's question about whether IB is somehow favored in college admissions. RM's admissions results are great - but so are admissions results from local non-IB programs.

Sorry if this rains on your parade, RM IB mom. That must explain the snippiness.

No snippiness at all -- I'd never heard that Blair (unlike B-CC and a few other MCPS) had an IB program (hence, my question) but I have no reason to doubt that RM-IB's college admission results are comparable to several other MCPS schools without IB programs -- although, I gather from your post that Blair's program is on the decline since it's now "down to 4 students . . ."

[Anonymous]

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No snippiness at all -- I'd never heard that Blair (unlike B-CC and a few other MCPS) had an IB program (hence, my question) but I have no reason to doubt that RM-IB's college admission results are comparable to several other MCPS schools without IB programs -- although, I gather from your post that Blair's program is on the decline since it's now "down to 4 students . . ."

I'm pretty sure I'm not alone here in finding RM IB mom obnoxious - others here have had run-ins with her in the past. I watched her freak out on someone else with the eyeroll emoticons maybe a year ago. If her kid is doing RM IB, she knows perfectly well that Blair doesn't have an IB program. She also knows what "down to 4 students" means. Jeez.

[Anonymous]

She's pissed. Her kid's school doesn't look so special after all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:RM-IB's Class of 2013 did very well in the college admissions process if judging by the overall acceptances at each of the Ivies, top SLACs (Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, etc.), top Elites (Stanford, MIT, Duke, etc.), and the number of merit scholarship awarded. In fact, at least 4 students are headed to Yale in the fall, and at least one student is headed to every other top 10 ranked school -- and those who aren't, are headed to UMD/UMBC or the private (JHU, WUSTL, NYU, etc.) or public school (UVA, Pitt., Wm. & Mary, etc.) to which they received a full or substantial scholarship.

This sounds like Blair, down to 4 students headed to Yale next fall.

Does Blair have an IB program? If not, what's your point?

The point goes directly to OP's question about whether IB is somehow favored in college admissions. RM's admissions results are great - but so are admissions results from local non-IB programs.

Sorry if this rains on your parade, RM IB mom. That must explain the snippiness.

No snippiness at all -- I'd never heard that Blair (unlike B-CC and a few other MCPS) had an IB program (hence, my question) but I have no reason to doubt that RM-IB's college admission results are comparable to several other MCPS schools without IB programs -- although, I gather from your post that Blair's program is on the decline since it's now "down to 4 students . . ."

I'm new to this aspect of the discussion (I posted at the very beginning of this thread about the certificate option)

The question is how do students in IB programs do in college admissions compared to students who are not IB programs. Someone posted that the outcomes for students at RM, an admissions only IB program in MCPS, are excellent. Somebody else made the point that the outcomes from students at the Blair magnet, a similarly selective program in the same county that includes AP classes rather than IB are similarly excellent. I think this supports the case that for top students who take the most rigorous program available to them, the outcomes are similar whether they choose an IB or AP path.

I would also assume that "down to" means that the details of admissions are very very similar even to the specific degree that both schools have 4 students headed to Yale, which seems quite a coincidence. It's a pretty common expression, and doesn't actually mean that the admissions to Yale have come down.

[Anonymous]

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No snippiness at all -- I'd never heard that Blair (unlike B-CC and a few other MCPS) had an IB program (hence, my question) but I have no reason to doubt that RM-IB's college admission results are comparable to several other MCPS schools without IB programs -- although, I gather from your post that Blair's program is on the decline since it's now "down to 4 students . . ."

I'm pretty sure I'm not alone here in finding RM IB mom obnoxious - others here have had run-ins with her in the past. I watched her freak out on someone else with the eyeroll emoticons maybe a year ago. If her kid is doing RM IB, she knows perfectly well that Blair doesn't have an IB program. She also knows what "down to 4 students" means. Jeez.

My older child attended Blair M&S but it's been several years so I didn't know whether an IB program had replaced the CAP(?) program. Your original post would have been relevant if you'd been talking about B-CC or another MCPS or non-MCPS school with an IB program (the general vein of this thread) but seemed pointless/nothing more than "me too" in reply to a specific question about RM. Now, in terms of being obnoxious, it's a case of the pot calling the kettle "black" since I'm a man . On that note, rather than engaging in a pissing contest with me and sending out a rallying cry to your DCUM cronies, why don't you just man-up and take ownership of your "Blair brag" -- although it's nice to know that Blair students are doing well in the college admissions process too. But, I'm sure this is the case with students at Thomas Jefferson, Churchill, School Without Walls, etc. . . . So, again, your post was pointless notwithstanding your failed explanation but kudos to YOUR Blazer.

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Anonymous wrote:RM-IB's Class of 2013 did very well in the college admissions process if judging by the overall acceptances at each of the Ivies, top SLACs (Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, etc.), top Elites (Stanford, MIT, Duke, etc.), and the number of merit scholarship awarded. In fact, at least 4 students are headed to Yale in the fall, and at least one student is headed to every other top 10 ranked school -- and those who aren't, are headed to UMD/UMBC or the private (JHU, WUSTL, NYU, etc.) or public school (UVA, Pitt., Wm. & Mary, etc.) to which they received a full or substantial scholarship.

This sounds like Blair, down to 4 students headed to Yale next fall.

Does Blair have an IB program? If not, what's your point?

The point goes directly to OP's question about whether IB is somehow favored in college admissions. RM's admissions results are great - but so are admissions results from local non-IB programs.

Sorry if this rains on your parade, RM IB mom. That must explain the snippiness.

No snippiness at all -- I'd never heard that Blair (unlike B-CC and a few other MCPS) had an IB program (hence, my question) but I have no reason to doubt that RM-IB's college admission results are comparable to several other MCPS schools without IB programs -- although, I gather from your post that Blair's program is on the decline since it's now "down to 4 students . . ."

I'm new to this aspect of the discussion (I posted at the very beginning of this thread about the certificate option)

The question is how do students in IB programs do in college admissions compared to students who are not IB programs. Someone posted that the outcomes for students at RM, an admissions only IB program in MCPS, are excellent. Somebody else made the point that the outcomes from students at the Blair magnet, a similarly selective program in the same county that includes AP classes rather than IB are similarly excellent. I think this supports the case that for top students who take the most rigorous program available to them, the outcomes are similar whether they choose an IB or AP path.

I would also assume that "down to" means that the details of admissions are very very similar even to the specific degree that both schools have 4 students headed to Yale, which seems quite a coincidence. It's a pretty common expression, and doesn't actually mean that the admissions to Yale have come down.

PP you're right -- that is a fair, perhaps fairer, reading of Momma/Papa Blair's post. I probably misread it because the chime-in didn't seem to be making any point regarding how RM in particular, or IB students in general, fared in the college admissions process. My bad.

[Anonymous]

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No snippiness at all -- I'd never heard that Blair (unlike B-CC and a few other MCPS) had an IB program (hence, my question) but I have no reason to doubt that RM-IB's college admission results are comparable to several other MCPS schools without IB programs -- although, I gather from your post that Blair's program is on the decline since it's now "down to 4 students . . ."

I'm pretty sure I'm not alone here in finding RM IB mom obnoxious - others here have had run-ins with her in the past. I watched her freak out on someone else with the eyeroll emoticons maybe a year ago. If her kid is doing RM IB, she knows perfectly well that Blair doesn't have an IB program. She also knows what "down to 4 students" means. Jeez.

My older child attended Blair M&S but it's been several years so I didn't know whether an IB program had replaced the CAP(?) program. Your original post would have been relevant if you'd been talking about B-CC or another MCPS or non-MCPS school with an IB program (the general vein of this thread) but seemed pointless/nothing more than "me too" in reply to a specific question about RM. Now, in terms of being obnoxious, it's a case of the pot calling the kettle "black" since I'm a man . On that note, rather than engaging in a pissing contest with me and sending out a rallying cry to your DCUM cronies, why don't you just man-up and take ownership of your "Blair brag" -- although it's nice to know that Blair students are doing well in the college admissions process too. But, I'm sure this is the case with students at Thomas Jefferson, Churchill, School Without Walls, etc. . . . So, again, your post was pointless notwithstanding your failed explanation but kudos to YOUR Blazer.

Wow. There is no, and there has never been, a "Blair Middle School." Blair does have a math/science magnet and the CAP program, and both are going strong. If your kid applied to RM IB, you would know about the Blair magnet at least, because there are only three application programs in MoCo and these are two of them, and in fact they share the same application form. CAP is the third of the three application programs in MoCo.

And way to miss the point. Again. The point was obviously that, despite your aggressive bragging about IB admissions results, these admissions results are not uncommon for area schools. In fact, at Blair, the 4 kids going to Yale are just the ones who are matriculating, as I know at least one Blair kid who turned Yale down for a better FA offer. In any event, as another PP pointed out to you, (1) OP asked about IB versus other programs, and (2) I answered the "versus other programs" part by providing data that I'm sure of, which is Blair, rather than making something up about other schools. So what the hell is your problem?

[Anonymous]

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My older child attended Blair M&S but it's been several years so I didn't know whether an IB program had replaced the CAP(?) program. Your original post would have been relevant if you'd been talking about B-CC or another MCPS or non-MCPS school with an IB program (the general vein of this thread) but seemed pointless/nothing more than "me too" in reply to a specific question about RM. Now, in terms of being obnoxious, it's a case of the pot calling the kettle "black" since I'm a man . On that note, rather than engaging in a pissing contest with me and sending out a rallying cry to your DCUM cronies, why don't you just man-up and take ownership of your "Blair brag" -- although it's nice to know that Blair students are doing well in the college admissions process too. But, I'm sure this is the case with students at Thomas Jefferson, Churchill, School Without Walls, etc. . . . So, again, your post was pointless notwithstanding your failed explanation but kudos to YOUR Blazer.

Ah, that explains a lot. It's dick measuring disguised as college admissions.

[Anonymous]

Sigh...there goes ANOTHER thread to the people who are bent on being obnoxious (both of you - the RM IB one and the Blair one...). Seriously...(insert my own eye-roll emoticon)

After reading this thread it seems that we can all safely say that the IB diploma program is well regarded by college admissions counselors because it is an overall curriculum. We can also say that the AP courses are also well regarded for college admissions. They only thing that I noticed in reading is that the IB should be the full diploma rather than only the certificate and that the AP courses chosen should be varied.

As I understand it, as long as your child is choosing the most challenging curriculum available to them their college admissions process should go smoothly. Good luck to everyone whose kids are going to start that process over the next several months!

[Anonymous]

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My older child attended Blair M&S but it's been several years so I didn't know whether an IB program had replaced the CAP(?) program. Your original post would have been relevant if you'd been talking about B-CC or another MCPS or non-MCPS school with an IB program (the general vein of this thread) but seemed pointless/nothing more than "me too" in reply to a specific question about RM. Now, in terms of being obnoxious, it's a case of the pot calling the kettle "black" since I'm a man . On that note, rather than engaging in a pissing contest with me and sending out a rallying cry to your DCUM cronies, why don't you just man-up and take ownership of your "Blair brag" -- although it's nice to know that Blair students are doing well in the college admissions process too. But, I'm sure this is the case with students at Thomas Jefferson, Churchill, School Without Walls, etc. . . . So, again, your post was pointless notwithstanding your failed explanation but kudos to YOUR Blazer.

Ah, that explains a lot. It's dick measuring disguised as college admissions.

Wow . . . just wow . . .