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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]18:43 continued

Schools can be divided into 4 groups based on the number of AP and IB courses offered.

50 to 72 courses: Richard Montgomery, Bethesda Chevy Chase, Kennedy, Einstein
40 to 49 courses: Rockville, Springbrook, Seneca Valley, Watkins Mill
30 to 39 courses: Walter Johnson, Wootton, Whitman, Churchill, Quince Orchard, Poolesville
20 to 29 courses: Blair, Blake, Northwest, Clarksburg, Sherwood, Gaithersburg, Damascus, Magruder, Northwood, Paint Branch, Wheaton

Note that if you look in the detail they separate out the APs from IB offerings & BCC is still at the top. Might not account for the specific math offerings at Whitman but I know my kid did dual enrollment at MC & lots of their peers did as well.

OP coming from DCPS - all of MCPS has its issues but fwiw we moved from DC & had similar concerns (minimizing commute especially) & chose BCC over Whitman. We also prefer the tiny bit of diversity it offers over Whitman.[/quote]

You are deliberately misunderstanding my post. BCC has way fewer AP courses than many other high schools, including WJ and WW. This is a fact borne out your own chart. IB course are NOT AT ALL the same as AP courses. In math, they are much lower-level. The IB is not as recognized by universities as AP courses. So it's entirely useless to lump the two together and claim that BCC another high schools have "more" courses.

You're comparing apples to oranges and generating confusion here. Talk about AP and IB separately. 
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colleges will look at most IB courses. There is a designation for IB in the college admissions.

https://www.transfercredit.umd.edu/plc/IBGenEd.pdf

Includes a couple of math classes.

Most RMIB kids take both IB and AP exams, which they self study for.[/quote]

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