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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you.  Could the JWMS parent speak to a bit about the non-IB at RM?  Is it a "thing" that IB kids are taking the AP tests anyway, perhaps for the sake of attracting colleges?  Or not, and they stick to the IB tests, bc they are enough anyway.  I believe IB scores come in too late after college decisions, so I am under the understanding that IB students in general (not just at RM) take APs anyway.[/quote]

IB kids take AP exams and IB exams. My youngest took 16 AP exams and 6 IB, older one took 14-15 APs and 6 IBs. [/quote]

PP, I am GENUINELY curious - and since this forum is anonymous, I sincerely hope you would not mind answering - how did your kids take this many AP exams? Did they start AP exams only after they started high school or did they do any earlier? What was the distribution (I mean, how many each year)? And, I am sure quite a few of these were self study, right?

My DCs (and their friend circle) will not be doing more than 9-10. I am just wondering how common it is to take 15-16 APs, and that too in addition to 6 IBs in this case. In retrospect, how helpful was it - were they able to get college credits for all the AP exams?

Thanks![/quote]
Not PP, but I also had an IB student with that many APs. They double up taking the equivalent AP for their IB tests. IB students take max 4 tests at the HL level, but some schools only award credit for IB HL tests, so the AP scores are more likely to be awarded credit. If they had gone to UMD, they would have had 64 credits just from APs.

[b]Took class[/b]
11 - AP English Language
12 - AP English Literature (and IB HL in 12th)
9 - AP Government - US
10 - AP US History
11 - AP European History (and IB SL)
10 - AP Calculus BC (w/AB subscore) (did IB HL in 12th)
10 - AP Statistics
10 - AP Physics C - Mech
11 - AP Chemistry (did IB HL in 12th)
11 - AP Environmental Science (and IB SL)
12 - AP Spanish Language (IB SL)

[b]Self-Studied[/b] - but a lot of this content is overlap with strong background knowledge from other topics, so studying was really just reviewing the test prep books.
10 - AP Human Geography
11 - AP Psychology
12 - AP Macroeconomics
12 - AP Microeconomics

Was in Global Politics but chose not to test. Took FOCS in summer for tech credit and not AP Computer Science which is a common one.[/quote]

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