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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I keep seeing that IB hurts college acceptance chances because US schools don't understand it. That isn't necessarily true. I am also looking at IB for DS, also rising 8th and was surprised at how much higher the acceptance rate is fir IB a diploma candidates at selective colleges: http://www.fcps.edu/RobinsonSS/ib-program/pdf/info-night-2014.pdf[/quote]

U.S. schools understand IB now.  But the information in the IB deck is comparing the acceptance rate for IB diploma candidates against the admissions rate for all applicants to various schools, not the applicants taking a fair number of AP courses.  I think people in this area, with its strong schools, often don't realize how many schools across the country don't have either AP or IB.  It's one reason why local schools tend to do well in US News rankings and on the Washington Post "Challenge Index."

If you simply compared lists of schools that graduating seniors at Langley and Marshall were attending, the Langley list would look more impressive, but a lot of that has to do with the demographics of the two schools and the ability of more Langley parents to afford highly ranked, but expensive, private and out-of-state schools.

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