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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At my sons MCPS school which offered both IB and AP, 9 APs counted for the same as IB and “most rigorous” [/quote]
Do you mean IB classes or the IB diploma?

My kid is at RMIB, and there is no way 9 APs = IB diploma.

If you mean just the classes and without the diploma, then maybe.  But IB classes do require a ton more writing than AP classes.  My kid took both IB and AP courses.[/quote]

Rigor doesn’t mean just one thing. You can get an IB diploma with no physics and no calculus. (Of course you can take those courses as well! But they are not required to get the diploma.)[/quote]
This! They only allow 3 HL classes at BCC, and English is a given HL, so a kid can’t take IB a history HL, Physics HL and Math HL.
They can take multi calc(above AP) AP Physics C and IB history and IB English etc, and you are telling mw the second option is seen as less rigorous than full IB with perhaps no physics or only 3 HL classes? Makes no sense to me. A private college counselor told me that what you say isn’t the case. [/quote]

That stinks. My DS (at an FCPS) is taking HLs in math, physics, English and history this year, and SLs in foreign language and an elective. His foreign language is not offered in an HL, but would’ve done that also, if possible. It’s a lot of work, but what he wanted.[/quote] what your son is taking sounds like what a rigorous ID program would be. What I don’t understand is the people who are saying that any IB diploma is automatically more rigorous than the sort of schedule I listed out above .
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I question the premise that college admissions committees will downgrade an IB diploma as “less rigorous” if it doesn’t have the “right” IB courses in it.[/quote]
That was never the premise. It way not about downgrading the DP but rather if taking the most challenging courses the school offers in math and science, 
Which happened to be non-IB, plus the other IB classes (except for theory of knowledge and EE) automatically are less rigorous than the full IB diploma. Nobody said anything about admissions committees thinking less of the IB diploma. However I do think that taking the less rigorous IB courses in math and the science pathways would automatically be a less rigorous version of the IB diploma. Someone’s in the highest level of math and taking the high-level physics that is automatically more challenging than the sports medicine and the standard level math.[/quote]

Your premise is that admissions committees are going to believe that you took a "less rigorous" program if you didn't take physics and math HL. That is not proven. If they see your school offers IB and that you took three or four HL courses as required, they will regard that as a rigorous program, period. Only certain schools and certain majors are going to care [i]which [/i]IB courses you took - eg if you want to attend a STEM-heavy school then it matters that you took math and physics HL, but for other schools any three or four HL courses will be considered sufficiently rigorous.[/quote]

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