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[quote=Anonymous]You need to think about this from the point of view of which criteria is more search-restrictive.

Bethesda-Chevy Chase and Richard Montgomery are the only schools with AP and the full IB programme.

What you need to know about IB. Teachers don't know how to teach it. US college admissions officers don't know how to assess the grades the students get on it (ie: they tend to forget it's graded harder than APs and American coursework). You should only consider schools that offer the full programme, in the hope that they're a little more experienced with it.

Other things you need to know: there will always be a chill vs. rigorous issue in schools. Either your kid goes to a really rigorous school with great teachers and a full complement of advanced courses guaranteed to be offered every year because so many kids are advanced and enroll, with the competitive aspects that you might not like... or your kid goes to a not rigorous school with some problematic teachers (ex: long term sub who doesn't know the language "teaching" a language class) and no guarantee that any advanced course will be offered the years that your kid is interested, because there is a much smaller cohort of advanced students, but the atmosphere isn't as competitive.

Finally, consider your money - housing tends to be significantly more expensive in the neighborhoods with better schools - and your commute.

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