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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I got my IB diploma decades ago, so this isn't a comment about how W/L does it currently, but I don't understand why PPs act like you have to pick between AP and IB....you can take an AP test even if you don't take the class, but you can't take an IB test without being in the program. Back in the day I got the IB diploma and I took several AP tests as well. What am I missing about how it works currently?[/quote]

W-L offers a full AP program for students who prefer those courses over IB. And many students do in fact take a mix of AP and IB courses. So it’s not exactly a binary choice. The full IB diploma program is perhaps the most popular academic path at the school since students transfer into W-L specifically for that program. Back when APS and W-L first discussed introducing the IB Program way back in the 1970s, parents insisted that the AP program be retained. So when IB was finally implemented, students then had a choice between full IB, an AP course structure, or a mix of various AP and IB courses. [/quote]

Also, IB courses are only in 11th-12th so most, if not all, pre-IB students take at least a couple AP classes in 9th-10th. AP World History is offered for 9th grade and they have to take AP Government in 10th (government is a VA requirement and there is no room for it in the IB 11th-12th and W-L makes nearly everyone take it as an AP).[/quote]

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