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[quote=Anonymous]If you are at an IB school and don’t do the full diploma, you have much less chance of getting into a school like UVA. If you just take some IB classes, and do well overall, you will be a good fit for many schools. It is a rigorous program, and there is a great deal of reading and writing on integrated topics. Your kid has to be very bright and motivated. It’s not for everyone. They do take exams and they are graded externally. I remember my child having to keep track of lots of service hours, on top of the schoolwork. If the child is good writer, the big paper is not a problem. The student has to pick classes to take at a higher level and a standard level. The math and science kids took those subjects as HL. My kid took English, history, and Spanish as HL, as she was never a math kind of kid. I thought it was a very good program and certainly prepare her for a selective college, but I also wondered at times if all the work was really worth it. I don’t know how kids who are athletes make it work. My kid needed downtime too much to have huge outside commitments, although she certainly participated in lots of things.[/quote]

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