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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I graduated from high school 18 years ago, so I am not sure how all of this has changed.  I attending an IB program in Florida and we didn't have a non-complete program.  You either did the full program or not.  I started freshman year in "pre-IB" and it was a lottery to get a seat of the 100 available.  They called them magnet schools back then, which made no sense since my program was in north county in a wealthy area.  The other one was at St. Pete High, which was a dump.

Anyways, we ended up taking both the IB and the AP exams, since the state of Florida paid money to performing schools at the time based on AP exam results.  I found the AP exams to be a joke, and since I was angry I had to take them, I answered one half in Spanish (not a native language of mine) and the other one I wrote about how my biology teacher was bald.  I am pretty sure I got 3s on both of those.

I pursued engineering in both undergrad and graduate school. Eventually gave up on engineering and went to law school.  I have always felt the IB program was the best fit for any talented student.  That said, Florida was unique in that the "pool" of kids was very different compared to here I suspect, and even though my local high school had AP classes, the "level" of student was likely not the same.  If I didn't go to IB, my parents would have sent me to Tampa Jesuit, and they didn't have girls, so I deftly avoided that.      [/quote]

Very different model than IB in NoVa where few students complete the IB diploma and the stronger students are in the AP schools and classes. [/quote]

No, the stronger students tend to be in the high SES schools, which happen to be in AP schools.  Plenty of strong students in the IB schools.[/quote]

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