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I know Yorktown students who applied for IB and were not accepted for the class of 2017. I do not think 64 represents the number who applied especially given the fact that a decent amount who are accepted for pre-IB in 9th and 10th and don't do full IB in 11th and 12th.
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The class of 2017 has graduated. I'm talking about current numbers, which show a gap between permitted IB transfer numbers and actual number of transfers.

Maybe some kids do the pre-IB years at their home schools and then transfer? That seems unlikely, because I don't know a lot of kids who want to leave their current friends for a new school, but maybe that's the case.

Also, regardless of what other posters think about the merits of IB, OP didn't ask about that (and if s/he did, probably a lot of people would point out that it's been discussed plenty already and would supply links).

So, OP:

Current numbers indicate that transferring is entirely doable, especially if your child transfers at the beginning of high school.
If your child drops IB, s/he will have to return to the home school.
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Look, your information is wrong. There is no guarantee that OP's child will be able to transfer in order to do IB under the current system. All your numbers show is that the number of IB transfer students was lower than the current transfer cap for the 2015-2016 incoming class. But when was the cap set? What year? Let me tell you: it was 2016-2017. So they could have deliberately admitted fewer students in 2015-16 because of overcrowding. Perhaps parents made a stink, and so they set the cap at a slightly higher number the following year.

The number of students who graduate from the IB program is slightly lower than the number who start out as IB transfers as Freshmen, which makes sense, since they can be booted to their home school if they don't meet the program requirements. I know someone who was kicked out of W-L during their senior year for that very reason. Due to overcrowding, they are not "looking the other way" any longer when students don't meet the program requirements. But AFAIK, there is no option to transfer into IB at any point beyond 9th grade, so the number of IB students who receive diplomas is lower than the numbers admitted as Freshmen because some kids either move away, leave voluntarily, or, are forced out of the program.

Your numbers do NOT reveal that every qualified applicant is admitted. In fact, I know that not to be true. What I don't know, because the information is not made public, is how MANY students apply each year and how MANY are waitlisted and/or rejected.  And given some of what I've seen of the K-12 strategic plan that's being discussed leads me to believe that living in the W-L district might not a guarantee for IB either moving forward. OP should be made aware of all of this rather than be led to believe that her child will have no problem getting into IB. We have no way of knowing that. I am not commenting on the merits of IB, or even W-L. But you shouldn't give OP a false sense of the ease with which any child in Arlington can access an IB diploma. That's all.
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