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[quote=Anonymous]Teacher:

In my experience, it hasn’t helped with admissions.

Does it help with balancing workload in college, learning to write, and to think critically? Absolutely!

But most of that doesn’t show up in an application packet. A kid who took 10 IB courses that didn’t hit diploma requirements because they wanted extra science and less social studies or whatever isn’t going to be dinged. We had a couple HYPSM acceptances last year who were insanely strong candidates but opted to take their math sequence early and take math courses at the community college senior year instead. That threw off their testing (you can’t test until senior year for HLs) so they both opted out.

For AP, are you dinged if you don’t take AP seminar and instead take an extra AP something else? (I don’t know, I’m not an AP school…but that’s the equivalent of asking if not taking TOK is going to impact acceptance)

I will say the full diploma has to be something the kid really wants to do. It is a lot of outside of school work, and I’ve seen many seniors drop it because they get an acceptance letter and burn out.[/quote]

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