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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want the IB Diploma, you have to play by IB's rules. Their rule is you must take the HL exams senior year for them to count towards the diploma.

The work arounds are to:
1) take Analysis in 10th/11th and test the end of 12th (requires diligence and self studying, but not impossible) 
2) take a gap year before starting year 2. Take AP Stats online or at another school if your school doesn't offer it, or calculus after analysis year 1.
3) Not worry about the IB credit/diploma and just take the courses you want without the testing nonsense. You'll get credit for multivar since it will be DE.[/quote]

My kid is not interested in the IB Diploma so we have no intention of playing by IB rules if he attends that HS. The ideal is for him to transfer to an AP school but if that is not allowed then we will happily take the test as a Junior when the material is fresh.

Kids from AP schools are accepted at European schools without any real fuss, the schools seem to be able to interpret grades and AP scores reasonably easy. the IB Diploma has nothing to do with acceptance at colleges in the US, it isn't conferred until well after graduation. The IB program should be a magnate school offering for kids who are interested in completing it instead of forced on kids at select schools who have no other options. [/quote]
Lewis HS and Robinson HS are the only two that have both IB and AP offerings.

Does anyone know why these high schools offer IB only?
Mount Vernon, Justice, Edison, etc ...

And these high schools offer AP only?
TJHSST, Langley, McLean, Oakton, etc ...
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It is a NIGHTMARE to staff so many different advanced courses. You end up with singleton sections of everything, meaning you need to assign teachers 3 preps, find teachers who are willing/able to teach multiple different advanced sections, and figure out how to make the master schedule work. (e.g. If there's only 1 section of HL Analysis and it conflicts with advanced orchestra, you just lost half your analysis kids or half your orchestra.)  Really, it's a nightmare to staff IB anyway since it's 6 different advanced math courses (Analysis 1, II HL, II SL and Applications I, IIHL, IISL) vs the 4 AP classes (AP Precalc, Calc AB, Calc BC, Stats).  It is wild that any high school offers all 10 advanced classes, and is a testament to the staff and administration if they make it work.[/quote]

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