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[quote=Anonymous]I graduated from BCC's IBDP several years ago - my information is about a decade old, so take it with a grain of salt. I knew pretty much everyone in the IB program, but it's not really a "school within a school" - since you start the classes in 11th grade, you already have an established friend group from MS/earlier in HS. About a third of my friends did the IB diploma, the rest did a mix of IB/AP or just AP. And even among the cohort, people were in different math, science, and language classes - the only courses that everyone took were IB English HL, IB History HL, and TOK/Extended Essay.

I took 4 AP exams as well - a lot of the classes (particularly upper-level language courses) are mixed AP/IB, so the only difference among the students is the exam they'll take at the end. And I took AP English, which I found to be a much better English course than IB English, which was pretty much a joke. But I found the IB classes to be on the whole more challenging, and would absolutely recommend the program. It is well taught at BCC and really does teach important critical thinking skills, and it requires you to write a 20 page original research paper, which is a hugely important college prep skill. Also, everyone I know who did the IBDP got into great schools.

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