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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only kid I know that picked the regional program (Kennedy) dropped after 2 years and had a very poor review of the program.  [b]Will be interesting to see the IB passage rates from this cohort[/b].  I think it’s been a rocky start but that’s probably to be expected especially because I think that for that first cohort they took the stronger kids into RMIB and put the more borderline kids in the regional ones.[/quote]

Spoiler alert: They won't be great.[/quote]

Hopkins and uMich not good enough?  What schools are then?[/quote]

The poster asked about IB passage rates, not college acceptances. Those might be correlated but they are distinct things.[/quote]

Nobody knows what the IB passage rates are (i.e., what percent of students who are in the IB Diploma Programme got the IB Diploma), because the students won't get (or not get) the IB Diploma until this summer.[/quote]

If I remember correctly, the first regional criteria-based cohorts will graduate this year, correct?

Unless I'm wrong about that (might have been last year?), we won't have real data about how many kids matriculate into the magnet IB programs as freshmen, vs. how many actually attain the diploma, until June. If you're using data pertaining to the "old" non-magnet students, you're still comparing apples to oranges, magnet to opt-in.

For one thing, previous students attempting an IB diploma at a non-RMIB school didn't have access to the same freshman and sophomore magnet classes that are specifically designed to help prep them for the IB program. That's bound to make a huge difference in how easily they adjust to the IB format come junior year.

I did wonder something, though: what's the ramification for magnet IB kids if they decide not to aim for the diploma? Are they sent back to their home school if they don't register for the minimum three HL courses their junior year, for instance; or are they allowed to stay and continue taking IB and AP classes a la carte?[/quote]

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