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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there really much difference academically between Herndon and South Lakes?

I know a lot of kids transfer for South Lakes sports teams and pretend its for IB [b] [pffft no you don't know that][/b] [/quote]

Academically you could note that in school year 2022-23 at South Lakes, 489 kids took IB exams and 418 scored a 4 or better on an IB exam.
Meanwhile at Herndon, 383 kids took AP exams and 276 scored a 3 or better on an AP exam.

So you have similar sized schools with similar demographics, and in both cases roughly similar percentages of kids participated in the advanced academic programs and the success on the exams was better at the IB school than the AP school. This hardly supports the common claim that "hardly any" kids do IB compared to AP and that AP has a superior academic outcome.

One conclusion is that if you are a motivated white or Asian kid, then there is not much difference between Herndon and South Lakes.[/quote]

Using JMU as example:

There are 19 AP courses listed that will give college credit with a score of 3. College sites say most competitive students take 8-12 AP classes and could get college credit for all 8-12 classes if score 3 on AP exam.

For IB, NO college credit given for ANY IB Standard Level courses with a score of 4 and only 11 HL IB courses that would give college credit with 4. For the most competitive students that do full diploma, they can take 3 HL or 3 SL or if school allows, 4 HL and 2 SL- so for most competitive kids at IB schools, most college credit could get with test score of 4 is only for 4 classes.

IB: https://catalog.jmu.edu/content.php?catoid=62&navoid=3542#international-baccalaureate

AP: https://catalog.jmu.edu/content.php?catoid=62&navoid=3542#advanced-placement[/quote]

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