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It's not "difficult" to get on the IB track. It's a lottery and last year they offered spots to everyone on the waitlist due to the annex opening up more seats at the school. If you are an IB transfer student, you have to stay on the IB diploma track or move back to your home school - at least that's the threat. Not sure if they would actually do it. They used to have a concept of "partial IB" which meant you had to take 3 IB classes junior and senior years to maintain your transfer, but I believe they got rid of that and now if you transfer you have to be a full IB student (i.e., 6 IB classes junior and senior year).

I disagree somewhat with the poster who says IB is a school within a school. Anyone at WL can take IB classes. You don't have to be on the IB diploma track. My kid wasn't full IB, but took a combination of IB and AP classes depending on the subject and teacher. Also, [b]all kids whose home school is WL[/b] and who completed two years of foreign language in middle school are considered "pre-IB"[b] so it's not very selective[/b]. [/quote]

To be clear, it's not very selective if your kid already attends W-L and met the middle school criteria.  For those at Yorktown or Wakefield it's a lottery, which by definition makes it selective.  
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