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Based on your scientific survey, I'm sure.  I will say that AP programs are easier to understand -- ie.  rote memorization = a passing score, but that doesn't mean they're better.  Thankfully, many parents and students in the area are more worldly and capable of the original thinking that IB requires.[/quote]

This tangent got started when a poster incorrectly claimed, based on 2008-09 data reflected in current GreatSchools profiles, that Marshall has more Asian students than McLean.  That was incorrect, as shown previously.

In terms of demographic trends, over a four-year period from 2008 to 2012 in which the percentage of Asian high school students increased as a whole, and went up 3.5% at Langley, 2.1% at McLean, and 1.1% at Madison, it declined 4.3% at Marshall.  This seems to be consistent with a widely held view that, given the choice, Asian families in FCPS tend to prefer AP schools to IB schools.  It was not intended as a general comment on the respective strengths and weaknesses of AP and IB courses, although it is notable that the AAPAC's recent report to the School Board did specifically recommend that FCPS look for ways to enhance the existing math and science course offerings at the county's IB schools.   Conversely, the AAPAC report did not recommend changing the humanities courses at AP schools.

Be that as it may, the poster who previously claimed Marshall has more Asian students than McLean was incorrect.  
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