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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for your comments!!  I have a kid who was accepted to Blair and RMIB and is attending RMIB.

How was the workload?  That is her biggest concern.[/quote]

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It varied a lot. There was some homework that had to be turned in the next day, and other things had longer deadlines. We definitely learned time management very well. People would juggle school and sports and jobs and music and all sorts of extracurricular activities. It gets hectic junior and senior year when you've got the EE and college apps, but it was bearable. There were people who did their homework on the bus to/from school, at lunch, during dinner breaks or when they weren't doing things at tech rehearsals for drama. But honestly, even though it was stressful at the time, [b]college was much easier than IB — I'm not sure if this is because of different workloads or from the time management skills we developed, but almost everyone I've talked to has had this experience.
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My advice is to keep the big picture in mind. In the long term, an assignment or quiz doesn't matter as much as your mental health and keeping a healthy work-life balance. My personal philosophy was that if I didn't finish whatever I was working on by 1 a.m., I was going to bed because no school assignment was worth sacrificing my mental health. Besides, if you don't understand material in a sleep-deprived state at 1 a.m., what makes you think you'll understand it in an even more sleep-deprived state at 4 a.m.?[/quote]
I keep hearing this over and over, as well.

I have an incoming senior at RMIB.    DC is finding the work to be not that difficult, just a lot.  From EE to IA to regular HW, and then extra curriculars and wanting some down time... it's a lot.  I don't know about OP, but from what DC has told me, a lot of kids also procrastinate and goof off a lot (not that I blame them) when they should be focused, and that's part of the reason why they go to bed so late.

I don't expect my DC to attend an Ivy.  DC isn't even going to bother with applying to those schools, but when all is said and done, I know that DC got the best education in HS that DC could've gotten, and it will help DC at college. Hopefully like OP and others, DC will find college easier than most which will give DC some breathing room to do other things.

If DC was going to go through a stressful time in academics, I'd rather it be at home where DC has family to support them rather than off at college where there is no family support around.

I don't know about other families or IB students, but DC told me that they are so glad they chose IB.  Made some good friends, too.[/quote]

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