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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In our experience, IB has been great for a strong but shy student who appreciates the social experience of navigating high school in a tight-knit, readymade peer group, the closest experience in public school to a private school. Yes, the 6-course pack is something of a drag. We roll with it because it comes with a group of peers taking most of the same fairly rigorous classes for four years. In a giant public high school, you can't put a price on an IB peer group. These are teens who accrue the benefit of both social and academic inputs. Rather than denigrate IB like the poster above, it pays to think more broadly about what the program offers students who are a particularly good fit for it. Fact is, no shortage of those "middle of the road" IBD grads at Ivies, top tech programs and all manner of elite universities around the world.

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So now the strength of the IB program is the peer group? That’s very dependent on the school cohort, go to a magnet if that’s what you care for. There’s self selection in AP classes too.

Please with the “Ivy admission”. It happens at RMIB for a handful of the 100 admitted students, that are part of the magnet (strong peer cohort) and have access to different coursework.

That’s not representative of the typical IB program. In fact for students relying [b]exclusively[/b] on IB don’t do “ivy” in admissions, just on par with the students taking 4-5 AP’s and I’m not looking down on these outcomes.

It’s not denigration to point the shortcomings of IB to prospective students and their parents.[/quote]

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