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[quote=Anonymous]Did IB diploma in FCPS years ago. It’s fine. Probably largely a waste of time from a college credit standpoint, so I would recommend taking the AP exams on your own if you can and getting credit that way. From the IB diploma you won’t get that much credit vs the workload and there’s random time consuming stuff you have to do that’s just seemingly related to nothing credit wise. I’m not arguing it wasn’t a worthy academic exercise, but I do wish that colleges had a better way to credit it (perhaps this is different now?). My university at the time coded my credit weirdly as electives. They didn’t code any credit for HL history as American history, even though in FCPS (at least when I was in high school) 11 grade IB history is “History of the Americas” and the 12th grade topics in 20th century history was heavily weighted towards American history too. I suppose this doesn’t matter that much but could cause an issue if you needed specific courses for a grad program. There was one time I needed to get a manual override into another history class because of this, but I just explained the content of the IB curriculum to the professor and got it.

I wouldn’t have changed schools anyway over it. So I guess my recommendation is just go to your base school, in 10, 20 years it’s doubtful that it will alter the course of your life that much, and you can always just study for the AP exams and take those for credit if getting more credits is a concern. Or maybe enroll in summer classes at Nova or something.

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