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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes - it does sound strange, but colleges do look favorably on a student in the diploma program even though they won't have their final grades until too late for admission. However, many colleges will give credit for the final scores.

Also, maybe I didn't make it clear -  the kids are getting grades along the way for the work they are doing so there is a transcript. The only grades the colleges don't see before admissions decisions are the final scores. However, colleges really do recognize the difficult work and account for that.

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I wonder if an IB-based transcript might into some of the same issues the AP-based transcript runs into: wide variation in how hard it is to earn an "A" from one school to another, even from one teacher to another. In Montgomery County, for example, a range of high schools offer IBs, but RM is known to be the most rigorous. I understand that the IB curriculum is standard and IB teachers get training--but the value of an "A" still depends on the teaching talent and grading rigor in individual schools. With AP, colleges can get an idea about whether that "A" at Slacker High really means anything if the AP test result was a 2. With IB, the playing field levels with the test results, but those come in at the end of high school.[/quote]

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