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[quote=Anonymous]My kids go to an IB school. They take IB classes but are not on the diploma track by choice. They get letter grades in everything. The numerical grading is for IB assessments, which do not count toward the letter grade. It's IB testing season right now and this is the most relaxed my senior has been all year, knowing that the actual score honestly doesn't have any bearing on his future. If he gets college credit, great. Even so, it might be better for him to retake the class anyway if it's related to his major or minor.

IB assessment scores do not show up on transcripts that go to colleges. I believe the transcript indicates if the student is a IB diploma candidate, and admissions people know to look for a certain number of HL and SL courses plus Theory of Knowledge. Even so, many kids start off on the diploma track and don't pursue it after junior year, so I don't think it has a ton of bearing on decisions. In the end, it's course rigor and GPA that mean the most.

And plenty of our high achieving IB diploma and IB course happily kids head to JMU, UMW, and GMU![/quote]

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