IB - Real world opinions/feedback

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Anonymous wrote: BCC had a 95% pass rate in 2021

I don't believe that. Link please. It maybe something else BCC came up with.

91/96 seniors got their IB diploma. That info is part of the parent presentation on their website. Not sure why you wouldn’t believe it.

that's a very tiny minority of students.

Maybe 15-20% of each class decides to try for the full diploma. I don’t think that’s a tiny minority but that’s irrelevant. The original claims were that it’s a bad program that doesn’t prepare kids to get an IB diploma and that’s clearly just BS.

RMIB admits roughtly 125 kids in each cohort.

So, 96 kids (~20% of the ~500 kids) in a single HS (remember, there is no competitive admissions from other clusters, etc. and everyone is from the BCC cluster) opting to go for the full diploma seems pretty impressive to me. And 95% pass rate seems even more so.

- DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son completed his first year at RMIB last week. He really likes the program and appreciated the cohort. There are so many talented, hard-working students in the program!

He's not a procrastinator, so there were zero late nights studying.

But he had to work much, much harder than in his non-magnet middle school, especially for his English class. Math comes easily to him, so that was a breeze.

Thanks for this. I have a DC starting RMIB in the fall. She enjoys Math but is not a strong writer. Encouraged to hear that there were no late nights!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son completed his first year at RMIB last week. He really likes the program and appreciated the cohort. There are so many talented, hard-working students in the program!

He's not a procrastinator, so there were zero late nights studying.

But he had to work much, much harder than in his non-magnet middle school, especially for his English class. Math comes easily to him, so that was a breeze.

Thanks for this. I have a DC starting RMIB in the fall. She enjoys Math but is not a strong writer. Encouraged to hear that there were no late nights!

We had some late nights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: BCC had a 95% pass rate in 2021

I don't believe that. Link please. It maybe something else BCC came up with.

91/96 seniors got their IB diploma. That info is part of the parent presentation on their website. Not sure why you wouldn’t believe it.

that's a very tiny minority of students.

Maybe 15-20% of each class decides to try for the full diploma. I don’t think that’s a tiny minority but that’s irrelevant. The original claims were that it’s a bad program that doesn’t prepare kids to get an IB diploma and that’s clearly just BS.

If the program were stronger it would have more students doing well in it. I wonder if there's some kind of internal cull that happens to help the numbers.

Internal cull????

I half expect you to start talking about Soylent Green next...

A modest proposal!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: BCC had a 95% pass rate in 2021

I don't believe that. Link please. It maybe something else BCC came up with.

91/96 seniors got their IB diploma. That info is part of the parent presentation on their website. Not sure why you wouldn’t believe it.

that's a very tiny minority of students.

Maybe 15-20% of each class decides to try for the full diploma. I don’t think that’s a tiny minority but that’s irrelevant. The original claims were that it’s a bad program that doesn’t prepare kids to get an IB diploma and that’s clearly just BS.

If the program were stronger it would have more students doing well in it. I wonder if there's some kind of internal cull that happens to help the numbers.

If there were more strong students, it would be more popular.