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[quote=Anonymous]I have kids who attended both schools. In 9th and 10th, RM has pre-IB courses; BCC does not. At BCC, 9th grade is rather easy for the top kids and the difficulty ramps up in 10th. In 9th and 10th, kids at BCC just take the regular honors and occasional AP class.

I really prefer BCC. The school was more honest about IB and the administration was more supportive of all the kids learning. RM administration just cared about numbers and stats, even at the cost of learning. As an example, they will place IB kids who want to begin a 2nd foreign language straight into IB and higher level classes just so the students' weighted averages stay high. (In other words, kids who've studied lets say French but never taken any Spanish will suddenly be placed in level 5, along with your kid who has studied Spanish for four years just so the IB kid's transcript looks good-- then the teaching will be dumbed down so that kid will continue to get good grades.) there are exceptions made for IB kids at RM. I wish I were kidding but it's really the way they run the program. Both schools have many of their best teachers teaching IB but electives vary.

And, for what it's worth, my BCC kids did better in college admissions than my RM kid but there were RM kids who did very, very well in college admissions. I don't think there's a college admissions benefit to one IB program versus the other. The key is to end up at the top of the heap. If your kid can end up at the top of the graduating class, he or she will do well in college admissions; the colleges know MCPS is a good school district. [/quote]

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