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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At my sons MCPS school which offered both IB and AP, 9 APs counted for the same as IB and “most rigorous” [/quote]
Do you mean IB classes or the IB diploma?

My kid is at RMIB, and there is no way 9 APs = IB diploma.

If you mean just the classes and without the diploma, then maybe.  But IB classes do require a ton more writing than AP classes.  My kid took both IB and AP courses.[/quote]

Rigor doesn’t mean just one thing. You can get an IB diploma with no physics and no calculus. (Of course you can take those courses as well! But they are not required to get the diploma.)[/quote]
This! They only allow 3 HL classes at BCC, and English is a given HL, so a kid can’t take IB a history HL, Physics HL and Math HL.
They can take multi calc(above AP) AP Physics C and IB history and IB English etc, and you are telling mw the second option is seen as less rigorous than full IB with perhaps no physics or only 3 HL classes? Makes no sense to me. A private college counselor told me that what you say isn’t the case. [/quote]

That stinks. My DS (at an FCPS) is taking HLs in math, physics, English and history this year, and SLs in foreign language and an elective. His foreign language is not offered in an HL, but would’ve done that also, if possible. It’s a lot of work, but what he wanted.[/quote]
I don't know about BCC, but at RM it doesn't work that way.

DC taking 
HL IB physics, IB math, IB CS and IB English
SL history and foreign language + TOK

Even at BCC if you are going for the IB diploma, you have to take the IB STEM courses, too, but you can choose to SL, not HL in those courses.[/quote]

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