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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD graduated from RMIB in 2023. She did tons of AP exams as well as IB exams.

I know she took AP Gov and APUSH. I think the AP World History curriculum is not well aligned with the IB history classes she took, so no AP World History. She also took AP Physics 1, AP Stats, AP Calc AB and BC, AP Bio, AP Chem, AP English Lit, AP English Lang, AP Psych, AP French. So that's 12 total.

As far as years -- AP Gov in 9th; APUSH, AP Stats, and AP Physics 1 in 10th; AP French, AP Calc AB, and AP English Lang in 11th; and the rest in 12th.

As far as whether it was a good/bad idea -- I won't lie -- exam season senior year was freaking brutal, between 4 IB exams and 5 AP exams. Overall she did pretty well but not straight 5s on the exams for sure -- a range of 3s, 4s, and 5s. The first two years of her HS were during the pandemic so that didn't help. She wasn't shooting for Ivy League schools but for an OOS state school, and got plenty of merit, so that worked out.

Colleges do tend to recognize and give credit for AP scores more so than for IB scores -- no idea why. [/quote]

If she took so many AP’s, I’m honestly not seeing the point of even doing the IB. Any of those self studied, or she took the AP exam for every IB class she took? If you want to show the class rigor through AP exams it makes more sense to take the AP classes that are preparing you for them. [/quote]
dp.. the IB curriculum is about depth, not breadth, and involves a ton of writing and critical analysis.  It's not really about credit for college, though some colleges will take some of the IB scores above a 6, rarely a 5.

If you are only interested in college credit, don't bother with IB.  But, colleges do recognize that the IBDP is challenging, and that such a student has taken the most rigorous courses available.
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If you value the IB that much then choose the program and stick to it. Doing 12-13 APs is hard, kids that get good scores with them are usually competitive to most selective universities. It just looks like killing yourself for nothing.[/quote]

Yeah, but that’s the way some kids are.  I’m trying to talk mine out of taking some this year but she’s already looking at college courses and she wants to be able to jump to the more advanced classes.  L her college will give more credit for some AP tests than some IB tests even though the IB tests are a lot harder.[/quote]

You just need to plan well in 9th to 10th grades. If you want the college credit and course placement, take the APs and ace them. I think a kid doing IB plus 13 APs is poorly advised by parents or school counselor. It’s good to be ambitious, but in this case if IB is most rigorous, why the need to take the 13 APs. Seems like it’s only for college credit. From what I’ve seen doing the 13 APs alone, would almost certainly be considered the most rigorous.[/quote]

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