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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are zoned for one of the many mediocre at best IB schools, your child will have to fall into one of the following two categories to get the attention s/he needs:

1) Pursue the full diploma. Being in this category will elevate you to God status where you earn the favor of the administration and you can do no wrong.
2) Be an "at-risk" student. Being in this category gets you into all kinds of intervention programs that just may get you across the stage after 4 or 5 years.

Anything in between and your child will spend 4 years at the school unnoticed. And Lord help you if you take regular math - good luck finding a course sequence with the appropriate rigor if you plan to attend college.

And if you do take IB, your situation had better not change during your second year in the course sequence. Because if you do move into an AP school, you'll be starting over. Same for the reverse.

BUT... I can promise that at least one IB school offers multivariable calculus.[/quote]

This is simply not true. All these people speaking of IB have no kids in IB. My child did not fall into 1 or 2. He's at UVA going into his junior year of college there. Meanwhile he has friends that went to TJ that did not get into UVA. We're white, no legacy, not poor, not rich, he's not there to pkay sports. Just regular people who no special sauce to get him in. He had a rigorous HS life but had plenty of fun, let him tell it. He had excellent SAT scores and he's happy. [/quote]

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