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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BCC parent here. Our college counselor said go for AP for strongest applications and that the top 20 have difficulty figuring out what to do with IB applicants. AP may be a scam like past posters say but it is the way it works. [/quote]

BCC parent here. Our kid did full IB and it was a good experience for itself and also had good success woth college admissions.

If it’s really true a college counsellor said  T20 colleges “don’t know what to do” with IB DP candidates then that says more about tue college counselor than IB. [/quote]

Speaking of BCC.

You know IB Math is crap when the first year of the Math HL AA is … AP Calculus BC! I wonder why.

Also, no IB Chemistry at higher level offered.

If you want to do STEM, go full AP don’t waste your time with IB busy work like art, theory of knowledge, creativity activities and extended essay.[/quote].

I mean I don’t really disagree that if you are a stem-focused kid then the DP might not be for you but even assuming you are right that IB and AP math curricula overlap, I’m not sure why that indicates IB is crap?[/quote]

What does it indicate to you? Virtually every decent IB program like RMIB makes AP Calculus BC a prerequisite.

If IB Math prepares students well, there would be no motivation to change to Calculus BC.

But since IB math is not very good and many incoming students are accelerated in math, it makes most sense to keep them on the AP path and do IB Math in 12th grade only because it’s required for the diploma.[/quote]

I have no idea what you are trying to say but if you think everyone should take BC calculus in 10th grade then I’m not that interested [/quote]

Let me clarify it for you. At BCC, the IB Math  consists of one year of AP Calculus BC, and one year of IB Math HL, instead of the [b]typical  two years of IB Math HL[/b].

Interested or not, at BCC you can’t do IB Math HL without taking AP calculus BC. That’s because the IB curriculum is lacking and needs to be supplemented.

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What is in a "typical" 2 years of IB math HL?
Which MCP HS offers the typical 2 years of IB  Math course? 
Why do people only talk about one HS's IB program (in this case, BCC)?[/quote]

You can find more about the IBO Math here, SL classes are 1 year, HL classes are 2 years.

https://www.ibo.org/contentassets/5895a05412144fe890312bad52b17044/subject-brief-dp-math-analysis-and-approaches-en.pdf

IB in MCPS is a hodgepodge of everything so the experience is not uniform across high schools. Kennedy and Watkins Mill don’t even offer IB Math HL, only the SL version. Rockville does Math HL over two years. The better high schools like BCC require AP Calculus BC as the first year of IB Math HL.

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